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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2005
Michael Markl, Freiburg, DE;
Jochen Leupold, Freiburg, DE;
Michael Markl, Freiburg, DE;
Jochen Leupold, Freiburg, DE;
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, DE;
Abstract
A method according to the technique of a steady state free precession (SSFP) gradient echo method, in particular, of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tomography, wherein a regular sequence of radio frequency pulses with flip angle α is applied at temporally constant intervals TR, wherein the phase of these pulses is increased in subsequent steps by a constant phase increment, is characterized in that a predetermined phase encoding scheme is performed in such a manner that each individual phase encoding step is identically repeated N times under the following conditions: