Patent ID: 11927658
Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 1:
2. A control method of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including a measurement unit configured to measure a nuclear magnetic resonance signal of a subject, and a calculation unit configured to generate an image by using the nuclear magnetic resonance signal, the control method comprising:
an analysis step of receiving, from a sensing unit disposed to be physically separated from the subject being imaged by the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and configured to detect a body motion of the subject, a body motion detection result, and analyzing a spatial characteristic and a temporal characteristic of the body motion;
a processing determination step of determining, by using body motion information obtained in the analysis step, a change in processing of at least one of the measurement unit and the calculation unit, including specifying, based on the body motion information, a nuclear magnetic resonance signal to be excluded from the nuclear magnetic resonance signal used by the calculation unit for image generation; and
a step of controlling the processing by the calculation unit to exclude the nuclear magnetic resonance signal to be excluded, from the image generated by the calculation unit, according to the determination result obtained in the processing determination step.