An MRI apparatus which performs MR imaging in an SSFP pulse sequence in which RF excitation is accomplished by a phase cycling method is caused; to collect data regarding all the frequency regions in a k-space in an SSFP pulse sequence in a first phase series out of a plurality of phase series; to collect data regarding low frequency regions in the k-space in the SSFP pulse sequence in the remaining phase series out of the plurality of phase series; to reconstruct an image by Fourier transform of the data regarding all the frequency regions collected in the SSFP pulse sequence in said first phase series; to generate frequency data of the k-space by inverse Fourier transform of said image; to separate said frequency data into data of the low frequency regions in the k-space and data of high frequency regions; to add data whose value is 0 to said separated data of the low frequency regions as substitute for the data of the high frequency regions; to add data whose value is 0 to said separated data of the high frequency regions as substitute for the data of the low frequency regions; to add data whose value is 0 to the data of the low frequency regions collected in the SSFP pulse sequence in the remaining phase series as substitute for the data of the high frequency regions; to reconstruct low space frequency images based on the low frequency regions to which said substitute data have been added; to reconstruct high space frequency images based on the high frequency regions to which said substitute data have been added; and to totally add said low space frequency images and said high space frequency images multiplied by a scaling factor.

 
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