1. A magnetic resonance imaging method comprising: a. using a magnetic resonance imaging system to excite a field of view (FOV) for a target being imaged; b. using an excitation plan to limit said excited FOV to a relatively narrow band of magnetization; c. simultaneously exciting multiple said bands of magnetization; d. applying phase encoding along a shortest FOV dimension; e. simultaneously acquiring a signal from said excited bands of magnetization; and f. reconstructing and outputting a target image from said acquired signal.