Patent ID: 8148981

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input information indicating an object undergoing magnetic resonance imaging of which the resonance frequency of the object undergoing magnetic resonance imaging is a center frequency of an excitation pulse; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire magnetic resonance data by obtaining a steady state free precession of a magnetization in a desired object undergoing magnetic resonance imaging by applying plural excitation pulses having a same flip angle with a constant repetition time and gradient magnetic fields to an object, the plural excitation pulses each having a transmission phase varying by a variation amount determined based on a difference between a resonance frequency of a desired object undergoing magnetic resonance imaging and the center frequency defined depending on the object undergoing magnetic resonance imaging; and an image generating unit configured to generate an image of the desired object undergoing magnetic resonance imaging based on the magnetic resonance data, wherein a zero order moment of gradient magnetic field from each application time of the plural excitation pulses till a center time of a corresponding echo is zero, and wherein a zero order moment of gradient magnetic field from each center time of echoes till an application time of a following excitation pulse included in the gradient magnetic fields is zero.