Patent ID: 8552727

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: a Radio Frequency (RF) pulse applying unit that applies to a subject a flip pulse for exciting spin of nuclei inside a subject body, and a flop pulse for refocusing the phase of the spin; a gradient magnetic-field applying unit that applies a spoiler gradient magnetic field onto the subject after the flop pulse is applied, and applies a rewind gradient magnetic field before applying the flop pulse; a control unit that executes a pulse sequence of controlling the gradient magnetic-field applying unit so as to keep each of strengths of the spoiler gradient magnetic field and the rewind gradient magnetic field equal to or higher than a predetermined value with respect to each of a plurality of slice encodings, when performing imaging by three-dimensional fast spin echo method; and an image reconstructing unit that reconstructs an image from magnetic resonance data collected by executing the pulse sequence.