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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2002
Hans-Peter Fautz, Freiburg, DE;
Abstract
An imaging multi-slice NMR method for recording N slices (N>1) wherein for complete image reconstruction, recording in m individual steps (m>1) is carried out, wherein the recording of each step of each slice is carried out within a time period TA, is characterized in that the recording is carried out in r repetition cycles (r>m) and that during each of these repetition cycles, data from P slices (P<N) is acquired, wherein for recording the complete data set of m*N recording steps, the number of repetition cycles is r=m*N/P, wherein possible steps which remain due to non-dividability of m*N by P are attached or ignored, wherein spatial encoding can be different during each repetition step from slice to slice as long as after r repetitions for each slice all m spatial encoding steps are recorded, and wherein also the position of the P slices within the volume under investigation defined by the total number N of slices to be recorded can be different as long as the data for reconstructing N slices within the volume under investigation is complete after termination of the recording. In this fashion, it is possible to make the number of slices recorded in one measurement independent of the repetition time which determines the image contrast.