title: A brief review of hardware for catheter tracking in magnetic resonance imaging.
abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has traditionally been used exclusively in a role for patient diagnosis. However, it is unlikely that this role is sufficient for its continued prominence in medical imaging. Instead, the more ambitious role in diagnosis and also therapy/intervention will occur as demand for minimally invasive procedures increases. Fortunately, with recent improvement in technical specifications and creative pulse sequence design, MRI systems can now provide high quality near-real-time images that facilitate a variety of image-guided procedures, many based around delivery via catheters. While X-ray opacity is not available as a means for detecting the progression of the catheter in MRI systems today, a variety of novel hardware devices have been designed and used for MRI catheter tracking. This report provides a brief review of some fundamental methods for catheter tracking in MRI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. duerk@uhrad.com
authors.forename: Jeffrey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Duerk
authors.forename: Eddy Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Jonathan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lewin
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization; D055590:Electromagnetic Phenomena; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted