Patent ID: 7990140

Claim:
A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) apparatus comprising: a flip-angle setting unit that sets a flip angle of a fat-suppression pulse, based on (a) plural possible fat-suppression levels and (b) at least one scanning condition of an MRI scan to which a fat-signal suppression method is to be applied; a transmitting-receiving unit that creates a fat-suppression pulse having the set flip angle; a sequence control unit that controls irradiation of the fat-suppression pulse and application of a spoiler gradient magnetic field to a scan target portion of a subject, and suppresses an MR signal generated from fat tissue in the scan target portion to a predetermined magnitude corresponding to one of said plural possible fat-suppression levels; and an image-data creating unit that creates image data based on MR signals collected by applying an MRI pulse sequence to the scan target portion in which the MR signal from the fat tissue is suppressed.