Patent ID: 8035380

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: a static magnetic field generating unit which generates a static magnetic field; a gradient magnetic field generating unit which generates a gradient magnetic field to be superposed on the static magnetic field; a transmitting unit which transmits a radio-frequency pulse with which an imaging region of a subject having the static magnetic field and the gradient magnetic field applied thereto is irradiated; a plurality of coil elements which respectively receive magnetic resonance signals from the imaging region of the subject; a collecting unit which collects the magnetic resonance signals respectively received by the plurality of coil elements or a plurality of sections formed by grouping the plurality of coil elements; a reconstructing unit which reconstructs a plurality of pieces of first image data associated with the coil elements or the sections that have received the magnetic resonance signals, by use of the plurality of magnetic resonance signals collected by the collecting unit; a first generating unit which determines the coil elements or the sections which have received the plurality of magnetic resonance signals which are at least some of the plurality of magnetic resonance signals collected by the collecting unit as target elements or target sections, and generates second image data by combining the plurality of pieces of first image data associated with the target elements or the target sections; a display unit which displays an image represented by the second image data; and a second generating unit which changes the target elements or the target sections based on specification of a change in the target elements or the target section in accordance with the specification after display of the second image by the display unit, and generates third image data by combining the plurality of pieces of first image data associated with the changed target elements or the changed target sections.