Method and magnetic resonance apparatus for simultaneous multi-contrast turbo spin echo imaging

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising:

• a magnetic resonance data acquisition scanner;
• a control computer configured to operate the magnetic resonance data acquisition scanner to execute a turbo spin echo (TSE) data acquisition sequence with simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging wherein nuclear spins in two different slices of an examination subject are simultaneously excited so as to produce respective interleaved echo trains;
• said control computer being configured to operate said magnetic resonance data acquisition scanner with said SMS imaging configured so that magnetic resonance signals from the respective slices have a different contrast, with said SMS imaging being configured to cause evolution of magnetization of the nuclear spins for a second contrast of the different contrasts while magnetic resonance signals with a first contrast of the different contrasts are being detected;
• said control computer being configured to operate the magnetic resonance data acquisition scanner to detect the respective magnetic resonance signals from the two different slices and to enter the detected signals into an electronic memory organized as k-space, as k-space data;
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• said control computer being configured to access said memory to make the k-space data electronically available as a data file.