Increasing spoil efficiency

A method for operating a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging device, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) applying an RF-spoiled gradient echo sequence in which a continuous sequence of radio-frequency (=RF) pulses are irradiated into a sample, wherein all magnetization vectors undergo a phase progression Fn=nΨ during an n-th sequence interval, wherein Ψ is a constant phase value for all magnetization vectors, a phase angle of the magnetization vectors being repeated after P RF pulses, wherein a total gradient moment in one or more directions in space has a value greater than 0 and consecutive pulses exhibit a constant repetition time TR, a k-space row being acquired after irradiation of each RF pulse such that the sequence leads to acquisition of a plurality of k-space rows that build up a one dimensional or multidimensional arrangement of k-space rows;
• b) identically repeating any one- or mufti-dimensional arrangement of k-space rows N times;
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• c) averaging or adding signals from identical k-space rows such that two identical k-space rows are m·P+P/N RF pulses apart, m being a natural number or 0, and values for P and N are chosen such that P/N yields a natural number.