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A method of producing magnetic resonance images wherein a (n+1) dimensional k space is scanned by means of an imaging pulse sequence with at least one RF excitation pulse followed by at least one RF refocusing pulse, wherein an incomplete complex spin echo signal S.sub.x is read and digitized by means of a quadrature detector, in one part of the read-out interval [t.sub.0 -1/2t.sub.a, t.sub.0 +1/2t.sub.a ] which has a central position about the center (t=t.sub.0) of the spin echo signal in the time interval [t.sub.0 -.epsilon.; t.sub.0 +.epsilon.], with n (n=0,1,2, . . . ) phase encoding gradients before the read-out interval, is characterized in that the digitized, incomplete, complex spin-echo signal is completed for the entire read-out interval by adding zeros and the central symmetrical part is weighted with a function which is substantially anti-symmetrical about the point t=t.sub.0 and has an amplitude of 1/2 at t.sub.0, and is subsequently Fourier-transformed for producing a Fourier-transformed signal. This permits start of image reconstruction while subsequent image data is still being read.

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