MRI clinical applications

  • Interventional MRI

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  • These movies show the world’s first MRI-guided cardiac catheterisation, performed at Guy’s Hospital in 2001.
  • The dark blob visible in each image is the tip of an angiographic balloon catheter. The balloon has been filled with carbon dioxide to make it visible as a signal void on MRI.
  • The procedure was performed with the patient inside a conventional superconducting MRI system. The cardiologist was standing at the bore of the scanner manipulating the catheter.
  • Real-time MRI was used to guide the procedure.

Razavi R et al (2003) The Lancet 362 1877-1882

 

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