A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence controlling circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence controlling circuitry is configured to execute (i) a first pulse sequence in which a spatially selective Inversion recovery (IR) pulse and a spatially non-selective IR pulse are applied, and subsequently an acquisition is performed and (ii) a second pulse sequence in which the spatially non-selective IR pulse is applied without applying the spatially selective IR pulse, and subsequently an acquisition is performed, while varying the first TI period, with respect to a plurality of first TI periods. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a second TI period to be used in a third pulse sequence and a fourth pulse sequence, based on data obtained from the first pulse sequence and the second pulse sequence. The sequence controlling circuitry executes (iii) the third pulse sequence in which the spatially selective IR pulse and the spatially non-selective IR pulse are applied, and subsequently an acquisition is performed and (iv) the fourth pulse sequence in which the spatially non-selective IR pulse is applied without applying the spatially selective IR pulse, and subsequently an acquisition is performed. The processing circuitry generates a magnetic resonance image of an imaged region based on data obtained from the third pulse sequence and the fourth pulse sequence.

A method for performing a magnetic resonance measurement includes selecting a first set of coil elements from a plurality of coil elements and a second set of coil elements from the plurality of coil elements, and performing a magnetic resonance measurement. During the magnetic resonance measurement with the first set of coil elements and the second set of coil elements, magnetic resonance signals and pilot tone signals are received. The method includes ascertaining at least one magnetic resonance image solely with the assistance of magnetic resonance signals received with the first set of coil elements during performance of the magnetic resonance measurement, and ascertaining patient movement information solely with the assistance of pilot tone signals received with the second set of coil elements during performance of the magnetic resonance measurement. The first set of coil elements is not congruent with the second set of coil elements.

The present disclosure relates to quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. A time series of magnetic resonance images of an examination region are assigned to different time points following an excitation is acquired by means of a magnetic resonance device, a signal evolution varying with respect to time is determined from the magnetic resonance images for each pixel from the magnetic resonance data of all of the magnetic resonance images and, by comparison of the signal evolution with comparison evolutions stored in a database, at least one quantitative result value on which the comparison evolution exhibiting the greatest agreement is based is assigned to a respective pixel.

The present disclosure relates to quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. A time series of magnetic resonance images of an examination region are assigned to different time points following an excitation is acquired by means of a magnetic resonance device, a signal evolution varying with respect to time is determined from the magnetic resonance images for each pixel from the magnetic resonance data of all of the magnetic resonance images and, by comparison of the signal evolution with comparison evolutions stored in a database, at least one quantitative result value on which the comparison evolution exhibiting the greatest agreement is based is assigned to a respective pixel.

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a sequence controlling circuit and a processing circuit. The sequence controlling circuit is configured to acquire undersampled frequency domain scan data by executing a pulse sequence while carrying out an undersampling process. The processing circuit is configured: to generate image domain corrected data of the frequency domain scan data, by correcting the frequency domain scan data in an image domain; to generate frequency domain corrected data of the frequency domain scan data by correcting the frequency domain scan data in a frequency domain; to optimize the frequency domain scan data based on the image domain corrected data and the frequency domain corrected data; and to reconstruct image data by using the optimized frequency domain scan data.

An MRI scanner and a method for operation of the MRI scanner are provided. The MRI scanner has a first receiving antenna for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from a patient in a patient tunnel, a second receiving antenna for receiving a signal having the Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance signal, and a receiver. The second receiving antenna is located outside of the patient tunnel or near an opening thereof. The receiver has a signal connection to the first receiving antenna and the second receiving antenna and is configured to suppress an interference signal by the second receiving antenna in the magnetic resonance signal received by the first receiving antenna.

Various methods and systems are provided for correcting transmit attenuation of an amplifier of a transmit radio frequency (RF) coil for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In one example, a method includes setting a reference value of transmit attenuation for an amplifier of a transmit radio frequency (RF) coil, acquiring a three-dimensional B.sub.1 field map with the transmit attenuation set at the reference value, determining a plurality of mean flip angles for a plurality of slice locations in a pre-scan imaging volume from the B.sub.1 field map, determining a transmit attenuation correction value for each of the slice locations based on a prescribed flip angle and the mean flip angle determined for the respective slice location, correcting the reference value of transmit attenuation with the transmit attenuation correction value at each of the slice locations to obtain a final value of transmit attenuation for each of the slice locations, and performing an MRI scan with the transmit attenuation set at the value.

According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an allowable amount of heat input to a superconducting magnet, the allowable amount being allocated to each of a plurality of imagings scheduled during a target period. The processing circuitry is configured to determine an imaging condition based on the allowable amount in the each of the plurality of imagings.

A main magnetic field correction method for a magnetic resonance imaging system includes: obtaining an estimated image of a phantom based on a first imaging sequence, the first imaging sequence having a variable resonant frequency; pre-correcting a main magnetic field based on the estimated image; obtaining a scanned image of the phantom based on the pre-corrected main magnetic field; and determining whether the quality of the scanned image is within an acceptable range, and if not, returning to the step of obtaining the estimated image.

A method of providing content related to capture of a medical image of an object is provided. The method includes acquiring at least one of information related to a state of the object and information related to a capture protocol, determining content to be provided to the object on a basis of the acquired information, and outputting the determined content.