Patent ID: 8664953

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, comprising: an acquiring unit acquires a size dimension data profile of the subject in each of one or more encoding directions selectively set in a region of interest (ROI) that is received from an operator; and a field-of-view (FOV) setting unit that compares the size dimension(s)in the data profile of the subject acquired in each of the one or more selectively set encoding directions, by the acquiring unit, with the corresponding size dimension(s) of the ROI, occurring in each of the one or more selectively set encoding directions, in order to obtain a comparison result; and the FOV setting unit, making use of the obtained comparison result, between the size dimensions of the subject in each of the one or more selectively set encoding directions, and the corresponding size dimension(s) of the ROI, in order to select/choose, based on that obtained comparison result, at the start of a magnetic resonance imaging scan, a single FOV setting that permits both a minimized/shortened magnetic resonance imaging scan time in combination with the acquisition of an aliasing-free/artifact-reduced magnetic resonance image.