Patent ID: 7535226
Filing Date: 2009-05-19
Classification: A61B,G01R

Abstract:
1. A nuclear magnetic resonance imaging method that acquires an image of an imaging region of a subject to be examined, in a static magnetic field space of a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus provided with an FOV being desirable, the imaging region being wider than the FOV, while moving a transport unit having the examined subject thereon, comprising, a step that moves the examined subject so that the imaging region of the examined subject passes through the space for imaging, a step that relatively displaces the FOV with respect to the examined subject, in response to information obtained from the examined subject during at least a part of a period when the examined subject is being moved, a step that executes an imaging pulse sequence while the examined subject is being moved, and collects nuclear magnetic resonance signals from the examined subject, and a step that reconstructs an image of the wide imaging region of the examined subject, by using the nuclear magnetic resonance signals.