An MRI system (100) is proposed (for generating one or more images of a body-part of a patient under analysis); the MRI system (100) comprises an injector head assembly (155), for injecting at least one medical fluid into the patient, having a clock unit (340) for providing a clock signal with a clock frequency. The MRI system (100) comprises means (420-425; 445-460) for adjusting the clock frequency in response to a manual command and/or to a detection of a degradation of the images. An injector system (155,165) for use in this MRI system (100) is also proposed. Moreover, a corresponding method (500) for managing the injector head assembly (155) is proposed. A computer program (400) for implementing the method (500) and a corresponding computer program product are also proposed.

In a computer-implemented method for setting a field of view for a magnetic resonance scan, exclusion information describing a region of the original field of view that is unmapped owing to the distortion is ascertained on the basis of the distortion map for at least one first set of field-of-view parameters describing a rectangular or cuboidal original field of view, the exclusion information is used to determine a second set of field-of-view parameters to be used for the magnetic resonance scan, and the magnetic resonance scan is performed using the second set of field-of-view parameters.

The present invention is to perform appropriate noise reduction processing on an image having different signal levels or noise levels depending on an imaging condition or a reconstruction condition. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to the invention includes: a measurement unit that receives a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated in a subject by a receiving coil; an image reconstruction unit that processes the nuclear magnetic resonance signal received by the receiving coil and reconstructs an image of the subject; an SNR spatial distribution calculation unit that calculates spatial distribution of a signal-to-noise ratio of the image using spatial distribution of a noise level and spatial distribution of the signal of the image; and a noise reduction unit that reduces noise from the image based on the spatial distribution of the signal-to-noise ratio.

A control system (10) for controlling a medical imaging device (12) includes: an electronic controller (18) including controller memory (26) and a controller display (24). The electronic controller is operatively connected to control the medical imaging device and programmed to: store a controller state (30) in the controller memory; execute imaging device setup software (38) to cause the electronic controller to provide a setup user interface (28) on the electronic controller via which a user configures the controller state stored in the controller memory; and execute control software (40) to cause the electronic controller to control the medical imaging device to acquire images (36) in accordance with the controller state stored in the controller memory. A remote computer (18′) includes remote computer memory (26′) and a remote computer display (24′). The remote computer not operatively connected to control the medical imaging device and programmed to: receive the controller state from the electronic controller via an electronic network (46) and store the received controller state in the remote computer memory, execute the imaging device setup software to cause the remote computer to provide the setup user interface on the remote computer via which a remote user configures the controller state stored in the remote computer memory thereby creating controller state modifications (30′), and transfer the controller state modifications to the electronic controller. The electronic controller is further programmed to update the controller state stored in the controller memory with the controller state modifications.

Systems and methods for MRI are provided. The methods may include for each slice of a plurality of slices of a subject to be scanned, determining a plurality of radiofrequency (RF) parameters, the plurality of RF parameters including at least one channel parameter corresponding to each of a plurality of channels; determining a slice group based at least in part on the RF parameters corresponding to the plurality of slices, the slice group including at least two slices selected from the plurality of slices; and directing at least a portion of the plurality of channels to excite the slice group based on RF parameters corresponding to the slice group.

The disclosure relates to a magnetic resonance apparatus with a patient positioning apparatus comprising at least one coil plug-in element and a communication unit, wherein the magnetic resonance apparatus comprises an adapter apparatus with a communication interface and the adapter apparatus is adapted to couple the communication unit to the at least one coil plug-in element of the patient positioning apparatus.

A magnetic resonance tomography system has an interference suppression transmitter and an interference suppression antenna. The interference suppression transmitter is configured to output an interference suppression signal via the interference suppression antenna as a function of a transmission interference suppression parameter determined from a patient property. In a predetermined region of an environment of the magnetic resonance tomography system, a field strength of the excitation pulse is reduced by destructive interference.

The present disclosure relates to techniques for the selection of one or more measuring coils in magnetic resonance imaging. Herein, account can be taken of a preselection in the selection of the one or more measuring coils from a plurality of candidate coils.

The present disclosure provides a system and method for image data acquisition. The method may include obtaining image data of a subject including a first type of tissue and a second type of tissue. The method may include determining, based on the image data of the subject, a target portion including at least a portion of at least one of the first type of tissue or the second type of tissue. The method may include determining, based at least in part on the target portion represented in the image data, a scan mode corresponding to the target portion. The method may include causing an imaging device to acquire, based on the scan mode, image data of the target portion.

An input device is to input a shape of a measurement target is response to a signal transmitted from a stylus pen, to determine positional relation between a position of a marker and a shape of the measurement target. The marker is attached to the measurement target and detectable by a cerebral-function measuring device. The input device includes a controller, and a display unit. The controller is configured to generate a screen in which a three dimensional shape of the measurement target and a guide of a position to be acquired next with the stylus pen are superimposed. The display unit is configured to display the screen generated by the controller, on a display portion.