A method for correcting a wrongly detected motion of an object under examination during an MR imaging procedure at which MR signals from a first part of the object are detected in order to generate MR images of the first part. A first motion signal of the object is detected during MR signal detection, and a second motion signal of the objet is detected during MR signal detection. The first motion signal is correlated with the second motion signal in order to separate an actual motion of the first part from the wrongly detected motion. A presence of the actual motion and the wrongly detected motion in the two motion signals is different. A motion compensation is carried out on the generated MR images in which substantially only the actual motion and not the wrongly detected motion of the object under examination is corrected in the detected MR signals.
