Design, Operation, and Safety of Single‐Room Interventional MRI Suites: Practical Experience From Two Centers
- 4 February 2014
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Vol. 41 (1), 34-43
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.24577
Abstract
The design and operation of a facility in which a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is incorporated into a room used for surgical or endovascular cardiac interventions presents several challenges. MR safety must be maintained in the presence of a much wider variety of equipment than is found in a diagnostic unit, and of staff unfamiliar with the MRI environment, without compromising the safety and practicality of the interventional procedure. Both the MR‐guided cardiac interventional unit at Kings College London and the intraoperative imaging suite at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery are single‐room interventional facilities incorporating 1.5 T cylindrical‐bore MRI scanners. The two units employ similar strategies to maintain MR safety, both in original design and day‐to‐day operational workflows, and between them over a decade of incident‐free practice has been accumulated. This article outlines these strategies, highlighting both similarities and differences between the units, as well as some lessons learned and resulting procedural changes made in both units since installation.J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2014.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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