1. A method for reducing the appearance of an artifact in a magnetic resonance image of an object comprising: applying an excitation radiofrequency (RF) pulse simultaneously with a gradient (G yt ) along a non-slice-selection axis and a slice selection gradient (G z ), and subsequently applying a slice-selective refocusing radiofrequency (RF) pulse; wherein G yt tilts the image slice selected by the excitation RF pulse by an angle θ y relative to the image slice selected by the refocusing RF pulse.