Patent ID: 8643364

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to carry out magnetic resonance imaging of a patient using a transmitting QD soil which allows at least one of phase and amplitude of a radio-frequency transmit pulse on at least one input channel of the transmitting QD coil to be adjusted independently of each other; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of the phase and the amplitude of the radio-frequency transmit pulse according to imaging conditions, wherein the imaging conditions include at least one of an imaging region of the patient and the type of the QD coil, wherein the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus further comprising a storage unit configured to store the imaging conditions and at least one of the phase and the amplitude of the radio-frequency transmit pulse, the at least one of the phase and the amplitude being associated with the imaging conditions, wherein the adjustment unit acquires at least one of the phase and the amplitude of the radio-frequency transmit pulse which meets the set imaging conditions from the storage unit as an initial value and adjusts the at least one of the phase and the amplitude using the initial value of the acquired at least one of the phase and the amplitude, wherein the QD coil is supplied with the radio-frequency transmit pulse from a first channel and a second channel, and wherein the adjustment unit adjusts at least one of the phase and the amplitude based on a first radio-frequency magnetic field map collected by means of transmission via the first channel alone and a second radio-frequency magnetic field map collected by means of transmission via the second channel alone.