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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, Tochigi, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Sugiura, Tochigi, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara-Shi, Tochigi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/50 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/50 (2013.01); G01R 33/4835 (2013.01); G01R 33/56308 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes control circuitry. The control circuitry executes, by a single protocol, acquisition of a distribution of a T1 relaxation time with a first slice as a target, and acquisition of a different kind from the distribution of the T1 relaxation time with a second slice as a target which neither overlaps nor crosses a region of interest of the first slice.