A typical clinical MR protocol is composed of several sets of scans to acquired images with different contrast, such as T1, T2 and DWI. Currently, the acquisition and reconstruction of these images are processed individually. The proposed method treats the optimization of all acquisitions and reconstructions as one single procedure for faster and more robust MRI. The theory behind this concept is that the information such as B0, B1- field, optimized acquisition trajectory, reconstruction parameters, etc., can be shared among all scans for different contrasts since the same subject is scanned in the same
system using the same RF coil.; A method of
magnetic resonance imaging includes performing a first magnetic 10
resonance scan sequence which saves a
data store, and performing a second magnetic
resonance scan sequence which uses a
data store from the first magnetic
resonance scan sequence. A
magnet (10) generates a B0 field in an examination region (12), a gradient coil
system (14, 22) creates magnetic gradients in the examination region, and an
RF system (16, 18, 20) induces resonance in and receives resonance signals from a subject in the 1 examination region. One or more processors (30) are programmed to perform a magnetic resonance pre-scan sequence to generate pre-scan information, perform a first sequence to generate first sequence data, refine the pre-scan information with the first sequence data, perform a second imaging sequence to generate second sequence data.; Further, the second sequence data is either reconstructed using the refined pre-scan information or performed using the refined pre-scan sequence information.