Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Antoine Choppin

Takeshi Kubota

Hitoshi Ikeda

Yoshihiro Oda

Miho Nagasawa

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a plurality of coil elements for receiving magnetic resonance signals of a subject in a plurality of selectable combinations. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus also includes a sensitive region storage device for storing respective sensitive regions for the combinations of the coil elements, a setting device for setting scan regions, a calculation device for calculating a scan volume rate indicating each of proportions of overlap regions between the scan regions and the sensitive regions to the scan regions, and a sensitivity volume rate indicating each of proportions of the overlap regions to the sensitive regions, and a selection device for selecting each combination of the coil elements used to receive the magnetic resonance signals of the subject, out of the combinations of the coil elements, based on the scan volume rate and the sensitivity volume rate.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method

The present invention is intended to improve imaging efficiency and maneuverability. A dynamic scanning initiation block initiates dynamic scanning in which a plurality of scans is sequentially performed with a time interval between adjoining scans. A dynamic scanning suspension block suspends the dynamic scanning initiated by the dynamic scanning initiation block. A dynamic scanning resumption block resumes the dynamic scanning suspended by the dynamic scanning suspension block.

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Tokyo, Japan

Antoine Choppin