A supersensitive nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes superconducting
magnet, a gradient magnetic field coil, a high frequency emitting coil, and a receiving
coil, wherein a biosample, including at least one of cells, organic tissues, and
laboratory small animals, is inserted in a sample chamber of generally 1 to 30
mm in diameter. The superconducting magnet is formed of laterally divided split
magnets, and the direction of the magnetic field generated by the magnet is generally
horizontal. The receiving coil is in the form of a solenoid coil, and the biosample
is inserted from a direction orthogonal to the direction of the magnetic field
in a generally vertical direction. The spatial resolution in imaging of the biosample
is not more than one-tenth of a cell that forms the biosample.