APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARALLEL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING USING NON-UNIFORM K-SPACE SAMPLING

Provided are an apparatus and method for sampling magnetic resonance (MR) signals received from each of a plurality of channel coils included in a radio frequency (RF) multi-coil such that intervals between two acquired signals that are adjacent in a first axis direction of a 3D K-space are non-uniform; and restoring an MR image by using the received MR signals. Weighting coefficients are calculated for a first section of k-space that relate a sampled MR signal to its neighbouring MR signals in k-space from multiple coils. A missing MR signal in a second section of k-space that has a spatial arrangement of MR signals in k-space that corresponds to the first section of k-space is subsequently reconstructed by summing up MR signals from the second k-space section from multiple coils weighted with the respective weighting coefficients.