Patent ID: RE43784

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging system for performing an imaging scan based on a selected pulse sequence to obtain an MR image at a selected region of an object to be imaged, the system comprising: a preparation scan performing unit configured to perform a preparation scan to acquire data for a plurality of preparatory images all at the same common location in the selected region of the object, the preparation scan being performed with the value of at least one desired image quality parameter of the pulse sequence being changed for acquisition of each of plural preparatory images; a preparatory image producing unit configured to produce a corresponding plurality of preparatory images having respectively differing image quality parameters inversion times from the data acquired by the performance of the preparation scan , the plurality of preparatory images being acquired all at the same common location in the selected region of the object without user operation for changing the inversion times ; a displaying unit configured to display the plurality of preparatory images associated with the respectively different image quality parameters inversion times ; a selection unit configured to allow a desired preparatory image to be selected from the plurality of preparatory images displayed by the displaying unit; and a setting unit configured to set, into an imaging scan, the value of the image quality parameter inversion time associated with the selected preparatory image.