Patent ID: 7679363

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: a radio frequency (RF) coil unit configured to transmit a 90° pulse and a 180° pulse in which a scan for 90°-exciting and 180°-exciting spins of two slices intersect each other, said RF coil unit further configured to receive a spin echo generated from the intersection thereof; a controller configured to sequentially parallel move the intersection to a plurality of scan positions; a display device; and a processor programmed to: generate, based on the received spin echo, a two-dimensional image at the time that the plural scan positions are seen in a predetermined projection direction orthogonal to the intersection; set the plurality of scan positions at a matrix of plural rows and plural columns in which a plurality of positions arranged at first intervals in the direction orthogonal to the intersection and the projection direction are defined as rows, and a plurality of positions arranged at second intervals in the projection direction are defined as columns; set a plurality of the scan positions at which a predetermined number of the first intervals are defined as mutual intervals in respective rows of a matrix; set one of the plurality of scan positions to each column of the matrix; and set the number of the plurality of scan positions in the respective rows identical to one another between the respective rows, the number of the plurality of scan positions in the respective rows being common divisors for the number of the columns in the matrix.