A compact, lightweight, and easy-to-use ESR-CT apparatus including a
magnetic field leak line (5-G line) which is capable of imaging a small
animal, such as a mouse, within 15 minutes, and of observing a desired
region with a spatial resolution of 1 mm or less. A permanent magnet
system is introduced of the apparatus includes pole pieces having a
predetermined area which are opposed to each other through a measured
space, yokes combined with the pole pieces, and a permanent magnet
inserted in series so that at least one magnetic pole plane intersects
perpendicularly to the closed magnetic circuit for magnetic coupling with
the yokes. This makes it possible to locate a gradient coil system and a
field scanning coil system sufficiently apart from end faces of the pole
pieces, and to downsize the field scanning coil system so that the
gradient field system is movable.