1. A method for operating a Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging system, the method comprising: generating radio frequency (RF) excitation pulses in patient anatomy to provide subsequent acquisition of associated RF echo data; generating slice select magnetic field gradients for phase encoding and readout RF data acquisition in the patient anatomy; acquiring a segment of a plurality of segments of k-space data for each of a plurality of slices of an imaged volume within each of a plurality of cycles; and causing, by a control processor, a RF signal generator and a gradient generator to change an order of the slices that the segments of k-space data are acquired for between consecutive cycles of the plurality of cycles.