General Electric Company
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and program

Abstract:

An MRI apparatus comprising a signal analyzing unit for determining a feature quantity of a navigator signal, and obtaining data representing a temporal change of the feature quantity for each coil element; a transforming unit for transforming the data obtained for each coil element into frequency spectra FS.sub.1 to FS.sub.16; and a selecting unit for selecting a coil element for determining a signal value of a body-motion signal for the subject from among coil elements E.sub.1 to E.sub.16 based on the frequency spectra FS.sub.1 to FS.sub.16.