Fujifilm Corporation

Fujifilm Healthcare Corporation

Chikako Moriwake

Hisako Nagao

Toru Shirai

Shinji Takahashi

Suguru Yokosawa

Kenta Sakuragi

Binrong Wu

Kentaroh Sunaga

Automatically performing a serial examination flow including, for example, positioning, imaging, and post processing enables reducing a burden placed on the user by a manual operation and improving examination efficiency. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a computation unit that performs action control of the entire apparatus and computation and an imaging unit that performs imaging according to control performed by the computation unit, wherein the computation unit includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of examination flow data each defining a processing flow of at least one of imaging processing, post processing, display processing, and transfer processing, and stores a plurality of keywords respectively indicating contents of at least a part of the examination flow data, an input unit that receives an input instruction issued by a user for executing a desired examination, and an examination flow control unit that selects the examination flow data corresponding to the input instruction and causes processing defined by the selected examination flow data to be performed.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control program for magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus performs automatic positioning with high accuracy within a short time with respect to tissues having a complicated anatomic structure. First measurement of scout imaging is executed before main imaging for acquiring a diagnosis image, and one-dimensional or two-dimensional measurement data is acquired. The right and left of a subject is determined by using the measurement data acquired in the first measurement. A cross-section position in second measurement of the scout imaging is calculated by using a determination result in the right and left determination and the measurement data acquired in the first measurement, the second measurement at the cross-section position is executed, and two-dimensional measurement data is acquired. A cross-section position in the main imaging is calculated by using the two-dimensional measurement data acquired in the second measurement.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and automatic imaging position setting method

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Chikako Moriwake