Facilities for monitoring blood flow during MR-guided diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
In this paper we describe a hardware and software environment for making available quantitative blood flow data inside and outside the magnetic resonance (MR) scanner room during MR-guided diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. The configuration allows for triggered and nontriggered examinations and provides the interventionalist with updated results within 1 second from data acquisition. The practicality of the setup and its potential for clinical and investigative purposes are demonstrated in vitro and in vivo. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 1999;10:845-850.
Bakker
C J
CJ
Department of Radiology, University Hospital Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands. C.J.G.Bakker@azu.nl
van der Weide
R
R
Smits
H F
HF
D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D015642:Radiology, Interventional