Patent ID: 7110805
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: A61B,G01R

Abstract:
1. A magnetic resonance imaging system comprising: image range providing means for providing a spatially-fixed imaging spatial range in which three or more regions of an object to be imaged are spatially selected in a predetermined moving direction along which the object is moved; moving means for continuously moving the object along the predetermined moving direction so that spatial positions of the three or more regions are continuously moved through the imaging spatial range along the moving direction; exciting means for space-selectively and magnetically exciting the three or more regions of the object that is in motion so that each region is repeatedly excited a plurality of times in the imaging spatial range at first intervals, of time during each of which two or more remaining regions are in turn excited at second intervals of time shorter than the first intervals of time; position-moving means for moving spatial positions of the three or more regions so as synchronously track a movement of the object in the moving direction; acquiring means for acquiring echo data from the three or more excited regions of the object while the object is continuously moved by the moving means; and processing means for processing the acquired echo data to produce image data from the echo data.