Patent ID: 8373416

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: an image capture section configured to generate magnetic resonance signals by applying gradient magnetic fields and radio-frequency pulses to a subject in a static magnetic field; a radio-frequency coil configured to receive the magnetic resonance signals; an acquiring unit configured to arrange the received magnetic resonance signals in frequency-band-split space; an image generating unit configured to generate multiple images by reconstructing the data arranged in the frequency-band-split space; and a filter configured to use as signal power in frequency-band-split space of the processing-target image, signal power of data in frequency-band-split space for one of the multiple images which has a highest similarity to a processing-target image, wherein gain is increased for a frequency band in which a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is higher in the frequency-band-split space and gain is reduced for a frequency band in which the SNR is lower.