Patent ID: 7015696

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus for correcting a tomographic image of an imaged region of a subject produced based on magnetic resonance signals received by a receive coil in an actual scan, with reference to a sensitivity distribution of said receive coil in said imaged region created in a reference scan, said apparatus comprising: a first reference image producing device for, based on said magnetic resonance signals from said imaged region received by said receive coil in a predefined imaging sequence with a plurality of different echo times in said reference scan, producing reference images respectively at said plurality of different echo times; a T 2 relaxation time calculating device for calculating a T 2 relaxation time based on the plurality of reference images produced by said first reference image producing device; a T 2 -weighted image calculating device for calculating a T 2 -weighted image at one of said plurality of different echo times based on the T 2 relaxation time calculated by said T 2 relaxation time calculating device; and a sensitivity distribution calculating device for calculating said sensitivity distribution based on the reference image produced by said first reference image producing device at the echo time used when said T 2 -weighted image calculating device calculated said T 2 -weighted image, and on said T 2 -weighted image calculated by said T 2 -weighted image calculating device.