There is provided a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: an inversion pulse generating unit that applies an inversion pulse to a living body to suppress a white matter image signal； an excitation pulse generating unit that applies an RF excitation pulse to the living body after inversion time from the inversion pulse so as to excite magnetization； an image signal receiving unit that acquires first and second final image signals from first and second echo trains in an RF refocusing pulse train, respectively； and an image generating unit that generates a gray matter image from the first and second final image signals.
