Patent ID: 8174264

Claim:
A magnetic resonance diagnostic apparatus which includes a main unit and a coil unit separate from the main unit, the magnetic resonance diagnostic apparatus comprising: a sampling clock generating unit which is provided in the main unit and which generates a sampling clock signal; a sampling clock transmitting unit which is provided in the main unit and which wirelessly transmits the sampling clock signal generated by the sampling clock generating unit; a sampling clock receiving unit which is provided in the coil unit and which receives the sampling clock signal transmitted by the sampling clock transmitting unit; a receiving coil which is provided in the coil unit and which outputs an electrical magnetic resonance signal in response to a magnetic resonance signal emitted from a subject as electromagnetic radiation; a compression unit which is provided in the coil unit and which compresses the amplitude of the magnetic resonance signal output by the receiving coil; a digitization unit which is provided in the coil unit and which digitizes, synchronously with the sampling clock signal received by the sampling clock receiving unit, the magnetic resonance signal compressed by the compression unit; a resonance signal transmitting unit which is provided in the coil unit and which wirelessly transmits the magnetic resonance signal digitized by the digitization unit; a resonance signal receiving unit which is provided in the main unit and which receives the magnetic resonance signal transmitted by the resonance signal transmitting unit; and a reconstruction unit which is provided in the main unit and which processes, synchronously with the sampling clock signal generated by the sampling clock generating unit, the magnetic resonance signal received by the resonance signal receiving unit and thereby reconstructs an image of the subject.