Open AccessElectrical Noise in the Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Setting
Author(s) -
Roger Dzwonczyk,
Jeffrey Fujii,
Orlando P. Simonetti,
Ricardo Nieves-Ramos,
Sergio D. Bergese
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818f8777
Subject(s) - medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , noise (video) , nuclear magnetic resonance , radiology , computer vision , physics , computer science , image (mathematics)
Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) is a tool now commonly used in neurosurgery. Safe and reliable patient care in this (or any other) operating room setting depends on an environment, where electrical noise (EN) does not interfere with the operation of the electronic monitoring or imaging equipment. In this investigation, we evaluated the EN generated by the iMRI system and the anesthesia patient monitor used at this institution that impacts the performance of these two devices.