MRI apparatus

An MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of receiving coils, each of which includes
• (i) an A/D converter configured to convert an MR signal received from an object into a digital signal by sampling the MR signal,
• (ii) a clock generation circuit configured to generate a reference clock of the sampling, and
• (iii) a radio transmission circuit configured to wirelessly transmit a digitized MR signal;
• and
• a main body configured to wirelessly receive the digitized MR signal and generate an image of the object by reconstructing the digitized MR signal,
• wherein one of the plurality of receiving coils is selected as a reference receiving coil by the main body and the selected reference receiving coil is configured to transmit the reference clock generated by the clock generation circuit thereof to each of other receiving coils by radio or by wire;
• and
• each of the other receiving coils is configured to synchronize the reference clock generated by the clock generation circuit thereof with the reference clock transmitted from the selected reference receiving coil.