US 11,693,073 B2
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, imaging parameter determining method, and non-volatile computer-readable storage medium storing therein imaging parameter determining program
Ryohei Takayanagi, Otawara (JP); Hiroki Kondo, Nasushiobara (JP); Masaaki Umeda, Sakura (JP); and Naoyuki Furudate, Otawara (JP)
Assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed by CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/513,083.
Claims priority of application No. JP2020-184483 (JP), filed on Nov. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0137171 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 33/4835 (2013.01) [G01R 33/543 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
based on one or both of (A) a first parameter related to applying a first pulse being one of an inversion pulse and a flip pulse, and (B) a first intensity of a slice selecting gradient magnetic field applied together with the first pulse in relation to selecting a first slice to which the first pulse is applied, determine one or both of (1) a second parameter related to applying a second pulse being another of the inversion and flip pulses other than the first pulse, and (2) a second intensity of the slice selecting gradient magnetic field applied together with the second pulse in relation to selecting a second slice to which the second pulse is applied; and
perform a magnetic resonance scan using the determined one or both of the second parameter and the second intensity,
wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to determine the one or both of the second parameter and the second intensity so as to diminish a difference between a position excited by the inversion pulse and a position excited by the flip pulse.