1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus in which a fixed field of view is defined in which magnetic resonance is excited and phase and frequency are encoded, the apparatus including: a plurality of fixed global receive coils for receiving resonance signals from the fixed field of view; a means for moving a subject continuously through the fixed field of view during the excitation, phase and frequency encoding of magnetic resonance and the reception of the magnetic resonance, such that each of the fixed global receive coils receives resonance signals from the subject over an elongated virtual field of view, longer than the fixed field of view; a means for generating coil sensitivity patterns from static reference acquisitions corresponding to the fixed field of view for the fixed global receive coils; and a means for mapping the sensitivity patterns from the fixed field of view corresponding to the global receive coils to the virtual field of view.