MR-guidance for biopsy procedures features high intrinsic soft-tissue contrast. However, artifacts induced by the metallic needle such as signal void and distortions can reduce the localization of the needle and thus prevent the targeting of smaller lesions.
A magnetic resonance imaging system or method is provided including a balanced steady-state free-precession transient imaging (transient bSSFP) device capable of increasing the overall signal during transient bSSFP acquisition by fully or better utilization of the magnetizatio
Disclosed is a wideband SSFP, wherein a standard balanced SSFP MRI sequence is played with repetition times of alternating lengths, TR and TR.sub.s, where TR.sub.s