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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1999
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method of magnetic resonance imaging includes subjecting a region of a patient being imaged to magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequences thereby generating magnetic resonance echoes emanating from the region. The echoes are encoded with magnetic gradients and collected as k-space data in separate consecutive acquisitions. Each acquisition successively fills in one of a number of distinct subsets of k-space based on the encoding of the collected echoes for that acquisition. In turn, a reconstruction algorithm is applied to the k-space data after each acquisition to generate a series of temporally updated image representations of the region. Further, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus for performing the method is also provided.