Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including:

• an imaging sequence generation section configured to apply imaging conditions to a predetermined pulse sequence to generate an imaging sequence;
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• an imaging section configured to collect echo signals from an imaging region according to the imaging sequence to reconstruct an image from the echo signals,
• wherein the predetermined pulse sequence includes an IR (Inversion Recovery) pulse and a plurality of two-dimensional selective high-frequency pulses,
• wherein the imaging conditions include application conditions of the plurality of two-dimensional selective high-frequency pulses,
• wherein the imaging sequence generation section includes an application condition determination part that determines whether or not set application conditions suppress blood signals that are the echo signals from blood in a targeted blood vessel,
• wherein in response to the echo signals are suppressed, the set application conditions are determined as applied application conditions that are the application conditions to be applied to the imaging sequence, and
• wherein in response to the echo signals are not suppressed, the set application conditions changed to suppress the blood signals are determined as the applied application conditions.