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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
May. 21, 2003
Marc Kouwenhoven, Eindhoven, NL;
Marc Kouwenhoven, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging method for forming forms an image of an object from a plurality of signals acquired by an array of multiple receiver antennae, and in which spins are excited in a pail of the object. Slices () are selected with a predetermined field-of-view for scanning the object and are rotated uniformly over a predetermined angle. MR signals are measured along a predetermined trajectory containing a plurality of lines of slices in k-space by application of a read gradient and other gradients. Further slices () are shifted in a lengthwise direction obtaining a staggered arrangement such that the beginning and end of each slice are at least approximately within the area covered by the slices before rotation.