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Abstract

In a multi-shot MR imaging method, a navigator echo V(kx, n) of which phase-encoding amount is 0 is generated by applying a gradient magnetic field pulse in a readout direction (x-direction) and collected at each segment. A phase shift map C(kx, n) of V(kx, n) collected in the n-th segment is produced in k-space as a function in kx-direction with V(kx, 1) collected in the first segment being the reference. Next, noises are removed from C(kx, n), and C(kx, n) is smoothed. Then, an image echo signal S(kx, n, m) collected in the n-th segment is corrected in k-space according to a smoothed phase shift map C'(kx, n) of V(kx, n) collected in the same segment, and an image echo signal S'(kx, n, m) of which phase shifts are corrected is thereby acquired. Thus, the phase shifts of the image echo signals caused by a motion in the x-direction of a patient can be precisely corrected at a high speed. By reconstructing an image with the corrected image echo signal S'(kx, n, m), the image without motion artifacts can be acquired in realtime.

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