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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2011
Kenji Nakanishi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Itagaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Nakanishi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Itagaki, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed are a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and an RF pulse control method wherein an RF pulse sequence in a start-up sequence is set as a monotonically increasing flip angle with offset, in order to reduce ghosts, blurring, and other artifacts during measurement in a transient state. For example, the sum of two adjacent consecutive terms in a monotonically increasing sequence is set as the flip angle. Specifically, the number of RF pulses in the RF pulse sequence and the flip angle for the RF pulses in an SSFP sequence are set, and the monotonically increasing flip angle with offset is found, based on the set number of RF pulses in the RF pulse sequence and the flip angle for the RF pulses in the SSFP sequence, and used as the RF pulse sequence.