Patent ID: 8594767
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: A61B,G01R

Abstract:
1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising a sequencer unit that executes an imaging sequence to image a desired area of a subject to be examined; a processing unit configured by one or more computer programs to reconstruct an image from signals obtained from a result of executing the imaging sequence; a table controller unit that controls movement of a table on which the subject to be examined is placed; and a living body signal detector unit that acquires a body motion period of the subject to be examined, wherein the sequencer unit executes multiple imaging sequences while the table controller unit moves the table from a desired first position to a desired second position with the passage of time, in one direction, gated with the body motion period of the subject to be examined, detected by the living body signal detector unit, and the sequencer unit collects echo signals for reconstructing multiple images over multiple body motion periods of the subject, including, for each specific k-space measurement space of multiple measurement spaces to be filled by each of the multiple imaging sequences respectively over the multiple body motion periods of the subject, collecting at least one echo signal for a portion of the specific measurement space over at least one body motion period of the subject, and collecting an echo signal for another portion of the specific measurement space over another body motion period of the subject, and the processing unit reconstructs multiple images corresponding to the multiple sequences as to a targetted area from the first position to the second position, using the echo signals obtained as a result of executing each of the multiple imaging sequences over the same targetted area from the first position to the second position.