Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

Patent 5603319 Issued on February 18, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 14, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 305589 filed on 09/14/1994

US Classes:

600/410Magnetic resonance imaging or spectroscopy

Examiners

Primary: Lateef, Marvin M.
Assistant: Casler, Brian L.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

International Class

A61B 005/055

Foreign Application Priority Data

1993-09-14 JP

Abstract

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus capable of obtaining a brain functional image without spending much time and of facillitating to distinguish a vein portion from a cortex portion. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes: a first unit which acquires at least one of data emphasizing a signal from a blood portion in a region of interest in a biological body to be examined and data least affected by inhomogeneity of a static magnetic field; a second unit which acquires data in which a change of magnetic field inhomogeneity (T2 *) in the region of interest is emphasized; and a control unit which executes simultaneously the first acquiring unit and the second acquiring unit during a predetermined pulse sequence after a radio-frequency magnetic field is applied to the biological body.