Patent ID: 8258785

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: a magnetic field generating means for generating a static magnetic field, a radiofrequency magnetic field and a gradient magnetic field, respectively; a detecting means for detecting a magnetic resonance signal generated from a subject placed in the static magnetic field; a measurement control means for controlling the magnetic field generating means and the detecting means; and a computing means for reconstructing a magnetic resonance spectroscopic image using a nuclear magnetic resonance signal, so as to display the magnetic resonance spectroscopic image, where, the detecting means includes a receiving coil being made up of multiple element coils; wherein, the measurement control means includes, a first measurement sequence means for performing a first measurement sequence for measuring a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum without suppressing a nuclear magnetic resonance signal from water, and a second measurement sequence means for performing a second measurement sequence for measuring a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum with suppressing a nuclear magnetic resonance signal from water, and, the computing means calculates a signal phase value of each pixel using the nuclear magnetic resonance signal of each pixel measured at each of the multiple element coils in the first measurement sequence means, and performs a phase correction for each nuclear magnetic resonance signal of each pixel measured at each of the multiple element coils in the second measurement sequence means using the signal phase value above-mentioned, in summing images reconstructed for each of the multiple element coils.