Patent ID: 8339136

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising a table on which a subject is placed, a static magnetic field application part which applies a static magnetic field to the subject, a gradient magnetic field application part which applies a gradient magnetic field to the subject, an RF signal transmission and reception part which transmits and receives RF signals to and from the subject, a table driving part which moves the table relatively to the static magnetic field application part, a data processing part which creates image data from RF signals received by the RF signal transmission and reception part, and a control part which controls operations of the gradient magnetic field application part, the RF signal transmission and reception part, and the table driving part, wherein: the control part controls the parts so that an operation of applying the gradient magnetic field to perform one cycle of phase encoding of a predetermined range while the table is relatively moved by the table driving part and thereby obtain a data set consisting of multiple RF signals should be repeated multiple times, and the data processing part comprises a hybrid data generation part which performs one-dimensional inverse Fourier transform of the data set obtained in each of the operations of multiple times in the read-out direction and thereby converts it into a hybrid data set, a correction part which performs correction for signal intensity continuity and phase continuity at borders of the multiple hybrid data sets generated by the hybrid data generation part, and an image generation part which synthesize the hybrid data corrected by the correcting part and then performs one-dimensional inverse Fourier transform of the data in the direction of phase encoding.