Patent ID: 7859263

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus configured to: repeat, for a plurality of consecutive repetition times, transmission of an RF pulse to each of a plurality of slices; scan the plurality of slices to acquire magnetic resonance signals generated therein, in multi-slice acquisition covering the plurality of sequential slices in a subject, the plurality of sequential slices including at least a first slice, a second slice, a third slice, and a fourth slice, wherein, in the first, second, third, and fourth slices, phases of the RF pulses are alternately reversed every consecutive repetition time, and the RF pulses are transmitted to the first, second, third, and fourth slices such that the phases of the RF pulses transmitted to the first and third slices are reversed from each other in each of the plurality of consecutive repetition times and such that the phases of the RF pulses transmitted to the second and fourth slices are reversed from each other in each of the plurality of consecutive repetition times; and generate slice images based on the magnetic resonance signals.