Patent Document ID: 20080180104
Application ID: 12020335
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: an observation-point arranging unit that arranges an observation point indicating a portion to be included in a slice area on a positioning image displayed on a display device; a scanning-condition receiving unit that receives a specification of a scanning condition including number of movements of a couch on which an object is placed during scanning and a size of the slice area; a slice-area setting unit that sets the slice area including the observation point arranged by the observation-point arranging unit for each position to which the couch is to be moved, based on the observation point arranged by the observation-point arranging unit and the scanning condition received by the scanning-condition receiving unit; and a scanning unit that scans the object multiple times while moving the couch, based on the slice area set by the slice-area setting unit.