title: "MR-conditional" pacemakers: the radiologist's role in multidisciplinary management.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The recent approval of an "MR-conditional" pacemaker system by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows patients with that pacemaker system to undergo MRI examinations within specific conditions. These examinations must be attended by radiology health care professionals with training for the use of the pacemaker system.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Radiologists should be knowledgeable of the specific limitations with regard to patient isocenter and coil positioning within the required 1.5-T MR system and the importance that the pacer be programmed before and after scanning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. colletti@usc.edu
authors.forename: Patrick M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Colletti
authors.forename: Jerold S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Shinbane
authors.forename: Frank G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Shellock
mesh_terms: D018795:Device Approval; D004869:Equipment Safety; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000592:standards*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration