Patent ID: 7026818

Claim:
An MR signal reception apparatus comprising: a receiving multi-coil configured to be composed of a plurality of element coils which receive MR signals; and a switchover member configured to selectively switch the plurality of element coils of the receiving multi-coil into a desired combined coil mode in response to an imaging condition including information about a phase encoding direction of parallel MR imaging, wherein the switchover member comprises at least one phase shifter configured to adjust a phase of at least one of the MR signals received by and outputted from the plurality of element coils; and a combiner configured to mutually combine the MR signals received by and outputted from the plurality of element coils, such that the plurality of element coils whose respective MR signals are mutually combined by the combiner are arranged in a direction which is different from the phase encoding direction in response to the combined coil mode, so that the combiner outputs a combined MR signal, the MR signals to be combined including the MR signal outputted from the phase shifter.