Patent ID: 7365541

Claim:
An MRI apparatus for determining and displaying operating instructions in which a high-frequency magnetic field and a gradient magnetic field are applied to a subject placed in a static magnetic field, a receiver coil attached to the subject receives a magnetic resonance signal generated in the subject, and a magnetic resonance image of the subject is generated from the magnetic resonance signal, said apparatus comprising: a gantry which comprises a static-magnetic-field generating unit for generating the static magnetic field, a high-frequency-magnetic-field generating unit for generating the high-frequency magnetic field and a gradient-magnetic-field generating unit for generating the gradient magnetic field; a determining unit which determines the type of the receiver coil; a memory unit which stores data items representing a plurality of methods of attaching various receiver coils, each one of said plurality of methods being designated for a corresponding type of receiver coil; and a monitor which is provided on the gantry and which displays one of the plurality of methods stored in the memory unit which pertains to the method of attaching the receiver coil whose type has been determined by the determining unit.