METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MR IMAGING TO REDUCE RADIAL RIPPLE OR ARTIFACT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the enlargement of the application of the PROPELLER method or a similar imaging protocol to the slice orientation other than by the head axial scanning and the other anatomical region in the magnetic resonance imaging. SOLUTION: The method and the system of the MR imaging enable the realistic execution of the PROPELLER imaging independently of the slice orientation or an anatomical structure of interest. Braids of the MR data (82 and 90) which are rotated around central ranges (88 and 91) of a k space are acquired, and an image of the arbitrary slice orientation not substantially including the radial ripple or the artifact due to the phase aliasing from a tissue at the outside of an optical field of a slice plane is reconstructed (94) from the braids of the MR data (82 and 90). COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI