Free-breathing abdominal MRI is challenging due to the unpredictable and complex 3D deformation caused by respiration. We present a novel acquisition where short TR single-band or multiband slice acquisitions are swept smoothly across the anatomy of interest while preserving steady state conditions. This is achieved by adding a frequency offset to successive RF pulses shifting the excited slice by fraction of slice thickness for each acquired k-space. This creates a highly efficient acquisition with high redundancy in respiration. A method is presented to produce 4D respiration-resolved volumes from this data and examples of human placenta and kidney are presented.
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