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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2009
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and rf pulse for navigator and imaging sequence applying method
Yuji Iwadate, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Kanda, Tokyo, JP;
Aki Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a scan section for executing a navigator sequence which transmits an RF pulse to a subject to obtain each magnetic resonance signal as navigator data. Upon execution of the navigator sequence, the scan section excites both a navigator area having two regions from which intensities of different navigator data signals are obtained, the two regions containing a body-moved region of the subject, and a region different from the two regions simultaneously, and transmits the RF pulse in such a manner that the phase of navigator data obtained from the different region differs from the phase of at least one region of navigator data obtained from the two regions.