The invention relates to a method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of at least a portion of a body placed in a stationary and substantially homogeneous main magnetic field. The method comprises the steps of subjecting the body to a diffusion-weighting sequence (DW1), generating a train of M echoes (E1, E2, E3, E4, E5) by an imaging sequence (EPI1), and measuring this train of MR echoes. These steps are repeated until a complete imaging data set with a sufficient number of phase-encoding steps is measured. Thereafter, the imaging data set is corrected for macroscopic motions by means of an individual phase-correction of each train of MR echoes. Finally, an image is reconstructed from the imaging data. In order to provide a method for diffusion-weighted imaging, which requires a minimum additional measurement time for determining the phase errors of the imaging signals and which also guarantees a robust compensation of image artifacts caused by macroscopic motions of the body of the examined patient, the invention suggests to select the phase-encoding scheme of the imaging sequence such that each train of MR echoes (E1, E2, E3, E4, E5) comprises at least one initial MR navigator echo (E1), which forms and integral part of the imaging data set, wherein the phase-correction is derived from the MR navigator echo.