A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes: a sensitivity map
database that stores sensitivity map data of a multi-coil including
plural coils necessary for parallel imaging unfolding processing; a data
slicing unit that slices partial data from three-dimensional volume data
collected for the respective coils by parallel imaging, respectively; an
intermediate image reconstructing unit that executes reconstruction
processing for the partial data to thereby reconstruct intermediate
images for the respective coils; and a reference image generating unit
that slices sensitivity map data corresponding to the intermediate images
from the sensitivity map database as sensitivity map data for unfolding
processing, executes the parallel imaging unfolding processing for the
intermediate images using the sensitivity map data for unfolding
processing, and generates reference images.
