Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Masato Ikedo

Tokunori Kimura

Shigehide Kuhara

Naho Takahashi

Hirofumi Anno

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first data in which a tissue of interest has higher signal intensity than a background and second data in which the tissue of interest has lower signal intensity than the background, with regard to images of the same region of the same subject, and a generation unit that generates, on the basis of the first data and the second data, third data in which the contrast of the tissue of interest to the background is higher than those in the first and second data.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus reconstructing rephase and dephase images

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an acquisition unit which acquires first data in which a tissue of interest has higher signal intensity than a background and second data in which the tissue of interest has lower signal intensity than the background, with regard to images of the same region of the same subject, and a generation unit which generates, on the basis of the first data and the second data, third data in which the contrast of the tissue of interest to the background is higher than those in the first and second data.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

MRI apparatus acquires first and second MR data and generates therefrom third image data having higher contrast between blood and background tissues

A magnetic resonance imaging diagnostic apparatus includes a generating unit which generates a slice gradient magnetic field, a phase-encode gradient magnetic field and a read-out gradient magnetic field that extend in a slice axis, a phase-encode axis and a read-out axis, respectively, a setting unit which sets a dephase amount for weighting a signal-level decrease resulting from flows in the arteries and veins present in a region of interest of a subject, with respect to at least one axis selected form the slice axis, phase-encode axis and read-out axes, and a control unit which controls the generating unit by using a pulse sequence for a gradient echo system, which includes a dephase gradient-magnetic-field pulse that corresponds to the dephase amount set by the setting unit for the at least one axis.

Magnetic-resonance image diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling the same

According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an image generating unit, a judging unit and a correction unit. The image generating unit receives, from an object, a magnetic resonance signal caused by transmission of an RF pulse to cause a nuclear magnetic resonance, and generates image data of the object based on the magnetic resonance signal. The judging unit identifies an implant region where an implant part exists inside the object, based on the image data. The correction unit acquires magnetic resonance frequency information from a body region which is a region inside the object excluding the implant region, and corrects a center frequency of the RF pulse based on the magnetic resonance frequency information.

MRI apparatus and method using center frequency correction and a smoothness of an intensity distribution to exclude implant regions and identify body region positions

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes: a static magnetic field generating unit which generates a static magnetic field, a measuring unit which measures the strength distribution characteristic of the static magnetic field, a determination unit which determines correction amounts for first- to nth-order (n is a natural number of more than one) components of the strength distribution characteristic of the static magnetic field by fixing the correction amount for at least one specific component which are part of the first- to nth-order components at a predetermined amount and determining the correction amounts for other components than the specific component on the basis of the strength distribution characteristic, and a correction magnetic field generating unit which generates correction magnetic fields to correct the static magnetic field on the basis of the correction amounts.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and static magnetic field correction method

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a collector which collects magnetic resonance signals emitted from a region of interest of a subject, and a correction magnetic field generator which generates a correction magnetic field to correct the nonuniformity of a static magnetic field on the basis of magnetic resonance signals which are contained in the magnetic resonance signals collected by the collector, are emitted from a specific region which forms a portion of the region of interest.

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Otawara, Japan

Masato Ikedo