Transforming a pre-existing MRI environment into an interventional cardiac MRI suite.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To illustrate the practical and technical challenges along with the safety aspects when performing MRI-guided electrophysiological procedures in a pre-existing diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment.

Methods and results

A dedicated, well-trained multidisciplinary interventional cardiac MRI team (iCMR team), consisting of electrophysiologists, imaging cardiologists, radiologists, anaesthesiologists, MRI physicists, electrophysiological (EP) and MRI technicians, biomedical engineers, and medical instrumentation technologists is a prerequisite for a safe and feasible implementation of CMR-guided electrophysiological procedures (iCMR) in a pre-existing MRI environment. A formal dry run "mock-up" to address the entire spectrum of technical, logistic, and saf

SUBMITTER: Bijvoet GP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8456838 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature