In a method for generating an image dataset and one reference image dataset: a first raw dataset is provided that is recorded using a MR system, the first raw dataset including measurement signals at readout points in k-space that lie on a first k-space trajectory; a second raw dataset is provided that is recorded using the same MR system and on the same examination object, the second raw dataset including measurement signals at readout points in k-space that lie on a second, different k-space trajectory; image datasets are reconstructed from the first raw dataset, where a separate equalization coefficient set is used before the reconstruction of each image dataset; a reference image dataset is reconstructed from the second raw dataset; the reference image data set is compared with each image dataset to generate respective similarity values; and the image dataset is selected with a greatest similarity value.