the invention relates to an mr method with reduced motion artefacts in which the displacement of a pulsating object , or of a part thereof , which is present in an examination zone is continuously measured relative to a reference position , and in which the reconstruction of an mr image utilizes exclusively mr signals acquired from the examination zone while the displacement from the reference position reaches or falls below a threshold value . this gating is enhanced in accordance with the invention in that prior to the acquisition of the mr signals there are generated phase encoding gradients k y ) which act on the examination zone with different time integrals and that the threshold value can be varied in dependence on the respective phase encoding gradient .