1. A method of imaging large volumes without resulting slab-boundary artifacts comprising: defining a desired FOV larger than an optimal imaging volume of an MR scanner; selecting a slab thickness in a first direction that is smaller than the desired FOV and within the optimal imaging volume of the MR scanner; and continuously moving one of the optimal imaging volume and an imaging object in the first direction while repeatedly exciting and encoding spins with readout in the first direction to acquire data that is restricted to the selected slab thickness until at least one image of the FOV can be reconstructed.