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MRI Image Compatibility Overview |
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For millions of patients worldwide, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams provide essential and potentially life-saving information. Some devices, such as pacemakers and neurostimulators, have limitations related to MRI safety and may be contraindicated for use with MRI.
Even more devices, such as stents, vena cava filters, and some types of catheters and guidewires, are safe for use with MRI but have limited MRI image compatibility. Some of these devices are simply not well-imaged under MRI. Others have properties that interfere with the MRI image by causing an image artifact (distortion) in the area in and around the device, limiting the effectiveness of MRI for assisting placement or diagnostic follow up on these implants.
Biophan is developing solutions to these limitations, which will apply to a wide range of medical devices. Biophan currently has developed solutions for limited image compatibility with MRI for the following devices:
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