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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Takao Goto, Tokyo, JP;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An MRI apparatus comprises a image producing unit 101 for producing an image of a first body part containing a blood vessel; a defining unit 108 for defining a slice intersecting the image based on a reference position Q within the first body part, the slice being defined so that an angle of the slice is changeable with respect to the blood vessel VE; a unit for obtaining an index VI for deciding whether or not the blood vessel VE is contained within the slice for each angle θ; and a determining unit 111 for determining an angle of the slice at which the blood vessel VE is contained in the slice based on the index VI.