Patent ID: 8598870

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, comprising: (a) an electrocardio information acquisition unit configured to acquire a magnetic resonance signal and use it to estimate an electrocardiogram signal of an object in sync with a biomedical signal other than an electrocardiogram signal, the biomedical signal being acquired from the object and showing a cardiac beat, and (b) to determine a time difference between a position of a reference wave of the estimated electrocardiogram signal and a synchronous position of the biomedical signal, the position of the reference wave being estimated from the acquired magnetic resonance signal; and (c) an image data generation unit configured to acquire a magnetic resonance signal for imaging corresponding to a specific time phase of the cardiac cycle in sync with the biomedical signal based on the time difference, and (d) to generate an image data corresponding to the specific time phase of the cardiac cycle from the acquired magnetic resonance signal for imaging.