BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate presently preferred embodiments of the invention, and together with the general description given above and the detailed description of the preferred embodiments given below, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus (MRI apparatus) according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of stitching two parent images together to form a single image, performed by the controller appearing in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a view illustrating a display image example on the display unit appearing in FIG. 1, obtained after points of interest are set;
FIG. 4 is a view illustrating a display image example on the display unit appearing in FIG. 1, obtained after the points of interest shown in FIG. 3 are made to coincide with each other;
FIG. 5 is a view illustrating a display image example on the display unit appearing in FIG. 1, obtained after the display magnifications of the parent image shown in FIG. 4 are changed;
FIG. 6 is a view illustrating a display image example on the display unit appearing in FIG. 1, obtained after the display position is shifted from that shown in FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a view illustrating a positional relationship example between combinations of parent images obtained at different slicing positions for three-dimensional or multi-slicing imaging; and
FIG. 8 is a view useful in explaining a state in which the positional relationships between the parent images included in all combinations are changed in accordance with an instruction to change the positional relationship between the parent images included in a certain combination.
Patent Application
20070229492
