Patent ID: 6850793

Claim:
A method of magnetic resonance imaging for a plurality of slice planes of an object by carrying out a plurality of pulse sequences at a repetition time, each pulse sequence being applied to each slice plane and including an inversion sequence with an inversion pulse and an imaging sequence applied after an inversion time has passed from the application of the inversion sequence, and each slice including nuclear spins, the method comprising the steps of: manually specifying both the repetition time and the inversion time; setting the plurality of pulse sequences according to both of the specified repetition time and the specified inversion time so that, during each inversion time of each specified pulse sequence, both of more than one inversion sequence and more than one imaging sequence belonging to pulse sequences other than the specified pulse sequence is allocated in a nesting way that allows the plurality of pulse sequences to be nested one in another during repeating a scan every repetition time, and the plurality of pulse sequences cause the nuclear spins included in each of the plurality of slice planes to be subjected to magnetic actions during the same time interval within the repetition time by allocating two kinds of waiting time periods between the applications of the inversion sequence and the imaging sequence; and performing a multislice scan for the plurality of slice planes using the set pulse sequences.