US 7,538,549 B2
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging method and program therefor
Naoyuki Takei, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, Wis. (US)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/16,542.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-015272 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0180098 A1, Jul. 31, 2008
Int. Cl. G01V 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 324—307  [324/309] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising a scanning unit which executes a scan to collect magnetic resonance signals from a subject in an imaging space where a magnetostatic field is formed to match a PROPELLER method, the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus generating an image of the subject on the basis of the magnetic resonance signals obtained by the execution of the scan by the scanning unit, wherein:
the scanning unit, in executing the scan by the PROPELLER method, transmits a reversed pulse to the subject when the magnetic resonance signals are to be so collected successively at every repetition time as to match a blade including a plurality of trajectories and successively collects the magnetic resonance signals by executing a pulse sequence matching the GRE method after the time of reversal has elapsed.