Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition acquisition unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition acquisition unit acquires at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase of a radio frequency transmission signal so as to reduce a deviation of data in at least one region of interest set in an object. The imaging unit acquires image data by imaging according to an imaging condition including at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pyrone derivative and a pyridone derivative, which are novel intermediates for synthesizing an anti-influenza drug, a method of producing the same, and a method of using the same.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition acquisition unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition acquisition unit acquires at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase of a radio frequency transmission signal so as to reduce a deviation of data in at least one region of interest set in an object. The imaging unit acquires image data by imaging according to an imaging condition including at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase.

Abstract: A plurality of valve assemblies are provided to a base, and an air-supply flow path for supplying compressed air to each valve assembly is formed in the base. A main flow path communicating with the air-supply flow path and communicating with a pilot air-supply flow path is formed in an air supply block. When the compressed air is supplied to the air-supply flow path and the pilot air-supply flow path from the main flow path, a manifold solenoid valve becomes an internal pilot type. An external pilot flow path communicating with the pilot air-supply flow path is formed in an external pilot block, and when the external pilot block is provided, communication between the main flow path and the pilot air-supply flow path is shut off, and the manifold solenoid valve becomes an external pilot type in which the pilot pressure is supplied from the external pilot flow path.

Abstract: Attaching/detaching workability of a fitting block to/from an solenoid valve assembly is improved, and a fixing strength of the fitting block to the solenoid valve assembly is enhanced. The fitting block 41 is intended to be detachably mounted to the solenoid valve assembly 12, and the fitting block 41 is provided with port connecting tubes 42 and 43 detachably fitted in output ports A and B, and tube fittings 44 and 45 to which tubes 46 are connected. The fitting block 41 is further provided with an engagement projection 52 which is engaged with a concave portion 51 formed in the solenoid valve assembly 12, and the fitting block 41 is fixed to the solenoid valve assembly 12 via a portion of the engagement projection 52 by a clip 53 engaged with an engagement groove 57 formed in the engagement projection 52.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a apparatus includes a coil, a clock generator, an echo transmitter, a carrier generator, a clock transmitter, a regenerator, an receiver, a reconstructor, a detector, and a controller. The echo transmitter generates and transmits an echo transmission signal synchronously with a clock signal generated by the clock generator to wirelessly transmit an echo signal output from the col. The carrier generator generates a carrier signal have a frequency within a variable range. The clock transmitter wirelessly transmits a clock transmission signal. The regenerator regenerates the clock signal based on the transmitted clock transmission signal. The receiver extracts the echo signal synchronously with the regenerated clock signal from the transmitted echo transmission signal. The detector detects a frequency of an interference wave.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes first and second clock generators, a pulse generator, transmission and reception coils, pulse and phase detectors, and a corrector. The pulse generator generates an excitation pulse signal based on a clock signal generated by the first clock generator. The reception coil outputs a radio frequency signals corresponding to an excitation pulse transmitted from the transmission coil or an MR echo. The converter digitizes, synchronously with a clock signal generated by the second clock generator, the radio frequency signal, to obtain radio frequency data. The pulse detector detects excitation pulse data corresponding to the excitation pulse from the radio frequency data. The phase detector detects a phase of a pulse indicated by the detected excitation pulse data. The corrector corrects the radio frequency data based on the detected phase, to compensate for a phase offset which occurs in the echo during the digitization.

Abstract: The terminals that oppose each other when substrates are bonded are designed to be reliably joined. Comprised in a semiconductor device design system are a numerical value acquiring part, which acquires the respective numerical values of a plurality of calculation parameters, a junction estimating part, which, in the case in which a plurality of substrates has been pressed at a prescribed pressure so that the bump front end faces come into contact, estimates whether or not the respective mutually opposing bumps will be joined based on the respective numerical values of the calculation parameters acquired by the numerical value acquiring part, and a change processing part, which, in the case in which it has been estimated by the junction estimating part that any of the bumps will not be joined, gives a warning or performs processing so as to change the numerical value of at least one calculation parameter among the plurality of calculation parameters.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive injection device for injecting an adhesive between the substrates of laminates which each comprise at least two substrates that face each other. The adhesive injection device is provided with: a cassette which holds multiple laminates aligned along the direction of lamination of the substrates; and an adhesive injector which injects adhesive into each inter-substrate space, as the laminates are being held in the cassette, so that the actions of injecting the adhesive into each inter-substrate space overlap chronologically. Holding multiple laminates in the cassette makes it possible to treat the multiple laminates as a unit. By injecting adhesive into each inter-substrate space, as the laminates are being held, so that the actions of injecting the adhesive into each inter-substrate space overlap chronologically, the injection of adhesive into multiple laminates is simplified, and the time required for injection can be reduced.

Abstract: An array coil including at least three conductive elements arranged at predetermined intervals, each of the conductive elements being in the form of a loop, and a plurality of switches that enable the conductive elements to be connected together according to a plurality of connecting patterns.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a control unit and a coil unit. The control unit generates a first clock signal, generates a data signal to indicate an operating condition, modulates the first clock signal by the data signal to obtain a modulated signal, generates a clock transmission signal including the modulated signal, and emits the clock transmission signal. The coil unit converts the clock transmission signal into an electric signal, detects the modulated signal from the clock transmission signal, generates a second clock signal synchronous with the first clock signal from the modulated signal, detects an MR signal generated in a subject, digitizes, synchronously with the second clock signal, the MR signal, detects the data signal from the detected modulated signal by using of the second clock signal, controls the operating condition of the coil unit to be the operating condition indicated by the data signal.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which inhibits the activity of PI3K to regulate many biological processes including the growth, differentiation, survival, proliferation, migration, metabolism, and the like of cells and is therefore useful for the prevention/treatment of diseases including inflammatory diseases, arteriosclerosis, vascular/circulatory diseases, cancer/tumors, immune system diseases, cell proliferative diseases, infectious diseases, and the like. This was achieved by providing a substituted 2-amino-5,6-nitrogenated fused ring compound shown in the present specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a probe unit and a control/imaging unit. The probe unit includes an probe, an converter, an compressor and a transmitter. The control/imaging unit includes a receiver, an expander and an reconstructor. The probe detects an RF echo signal generated in a subject by a magnetic resonance phenomenon. The converter digitizes the detected signal. The compressor compresses the digitized signal in accordance with a predetermined compression parameter to obtain a compressed signal. The transmitter generates a transmission signal to wirelessly transmit the compressed echo signal and sends the transmission signal to a radio channel. The receiver receives the transmission signal and extracts the compressed signal from the received signal. The expander expands the extracted compressed signal in accordance with the parameter to obtain the RF echo signal. The reconstructor generates a video signal regarding the subject on the basis of the obtained signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes; an imaging area setting unit configured to set an imaging area for a patient according to an imaging condition; an excitation angle determination unit configured to collect magnetic resonance signals from the imaging area by a pre-scan and to determine, on the basis of the collected magnetic resonance signal, an optimal excitation angle of a radio-frequency magnetic field for use in an imaging scan; and an imaging unit configured to acquire imaging data by carrying out the imaging scan of the set imaging area for the patient applying the radio-frequency magnetic field with the determined optimal excitation angle.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus that applies a gradient magnetic field and a radio-frequency magnetic field to a subject in a static magnetic field to image the subject based on magnetic resonance signals emitted from the subject, includes a unit which generates K transmission radio-frequency pulse signals required to produce the radio-frequency magnetic field, an allocation unit which allocates the K transmission radio-frequency pulse signals to K in M transmission signal paths, a connection unit to which at most M radio-frequency coils are attachable and which selectively connects the M transmission signal paths and M reception signal paths to the radio-frequency coils, a selection unit which selects N in magnetic resonance signals which are respectively received by the at most M radio-frequency coils and transmitted through the at most M reception signal paths, and a unit which performs reception processing for each of the selected N magnetic resonance signals.

Abstract: A radio frequency coil unit includes a plurality of surface coils and a distributing/combining unit. The plurality of surface coils are arranged in a body-axis direction. The distributing/combining unit distributes and combines reception signals output from the plurality of surface coils to generate a new reception signal.

Abstract: A multithread execution device includes: a program memory in which a plurality of programs are stored; an instruction issue unit that issues an instruction retrieved from the program memory; an instruction execution unit that executes the instruction; a target execution speed information memory that stores target execution speed information of the instruction; an execution speed monitor that monitors an execution speed of the instruction; a feedback control unit that commands the instruction issue unit to issue the instruction such that the execution speed of the instruction approximately corresponds to the target execution speed information.

Abstract: The electronic control apparatus includes at least two microcomputers at least one of which is always supplied with electric power and configured such that, when rewriting of control software of these microcomputers are performed, control software of the microcomputer always supplied with electric power is rewritten after control software of the other microcomputer is rewritten. The electronic control apparatus has a configuration which makes it possible to correctly and reliably rewrite the control software for each of these microcomputers in succession.

Abstract: A radio frequency coil assembly is provided. The radio frequency coil assembly includes: a first radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from a tested body; a second radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from the tested body; and a third radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from the tested body and having a shape which is different from that of at least one of the first and second radio frequency coils so as to increase a local sensitivity in an image-picked-up region.

Abstract: A radio frequency coil assembly is provided that includes a first radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from a tested body; a second radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from the tested body; and a third radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from the tested body and having a shape that is different from that of at least one of the first and second radio frequency coils so as to increase local sensitivity in an image-picked-up region.