1. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus comprising: a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet, and an RF transceiver system controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF signals to an RF coil assembly; and a controller coupled to the plurality of gradient coils and the RF transceiver system and programmed to: apply a non-selective inversion recovery RF pulse to a region of interest; apply a plurality of encoding sequences to the region of interest to cause the generation of a plurality of echoes during each encoding sequence; acquire three dimensional magnetic resonance (MR) data from the region of interest; identify a hemorrhage based on the three dimensional MR data; characterize a type of the hemorrhage; and reconstruct an image based on the three dimensional MR data, the image comprising the characterized hemorrhage.