With the aim of reducing noise due to a digital signal in an A-D
conversion unit, the following is implemented: an input unit is provided
with four A-D converters and a gray code conversion unit. An analog NMR
signal corresponding to each channel is inputted to each A-D converter,
and the gray code conversion unit converts a digital signal represented
in binary code, outputted from the A-D converters, into a digital signal
represented in gray code. A gray code-converted digital signal is
transferred to an output unit through a digital signal bus. The gray code
digital signal is returned to a binary digital signal by a gray code
inverse conversion unit, and then the output unit transmits a binary
signal, outputted from the gray code inverse conversion unit, to a signal
processing unit.