Method and Magnetic Resonance System for Creating MR Images

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This invention describes a method and a magnetic resonance (MR) system for creating MR images, where images of a specified body region are captured using the same measurement settings, ensuring consistent spatial resolution. However, the time intervals between each image can vary, rather than being constant.

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• Monitoring dynamic physiological processes in organs (e.g., heart or lungs) where image intervals need to adapt to changes in motion or activity.
• Imaging areas with irregular motion patterns, such as during respiratory or cardiac cycles.
• Gaining improved insight into treatment response by observing changes in tissues or tumors over variable time intervals.
• Pediatric or trauma imaging, where flexibility in imaging timing is beneficial due to patient movement or urgency.

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• Ensures consistent image quality and detail by maintaining constant spatial resolution.
• Improved flexibility by allowing variable time intervals between images, making it adaptable to different clinical scenarios.
• Enables detailed study of fast and slow-changing physiological processes within the same imaging session.
• Can improve diagnostic accuracy by capturing relevant events at optimal times rather than fixed intervals.

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In a method and a magnetic resonance (MR) system for generating MR images, MR data of a predetermined volume segment within an examination subject are acquired using the same measurement configuration of the MR system. A number of MR images are reconstructed from the MR data. Each of the MR images is assigned to a respective time point at which the MR image represents at least a part of the volume segment. A spatial resolution during the acquisition of the MR data is maintained constant because of the aforementioned same measurement configuration. The temporal distance between each two time points succeeding one another in time is not constant.