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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2008
Applicant:

Kohei Adachi, Nasushiobara, JP;

Inventor:

Kohei Adachi, Nasushiobara, JP;

Assignees:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-Shi, Tochigi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An MRI apparatus includes a filtering control unit that filters discrete MR-signal values. A filter-coefficient setting unit sets a plurality of filter coefficients with respect to each point of sampling time, based on time-shift amounts corresponding to variations in an MR-signal frequency arising from temporal variations in the magnetic field strength. A product-sum operating unit filters the MR-signal values by performing a product-sum operation between the filter coefficients and the MR-signal values. An image-data creating unit creates image data based on the MR-signal values on which the filtering processing is performed.


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