Compatibility of interventional x-ray and magnetic resonance imaging: Feasibility of a closed bore XMR (CBXMR) system
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5 (Canada)
A next-generation interventional guidance system is proposed that will enable intraprocedural access to both x-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities. This closed bore XMR (CBXMR) system is comprised of a conventional radiographic rotating anode x-ray tube and a direct conversion flat panel detector on a rotating gantry positioned adjacent to the bore of a 1.5 T MRI. To assess the feasibility of such a system, we have investigated the degree of compatibility between the x-ray components and the MRI. For vertical bar B-vector{sub ext} vertical bar <200 G the effect on the radiographic tube motor was negligible regardless of the orientation of B-vector{sub ext} with respect to the motor axis of rotation--the frequency of anode rotation remained within 6% of the 3400 rpm frequency measured at 0 G. For vertical bar B-vector{sub ext} vertical bar >2400 G the anode slowed down to below 2400 rpm at all orientations. At intermediate B-vector{sub ext}, the frequency of rotation varied between 2400 and 3200 rpm, showing a strong dependence on orientation, with B-vector{sub ext} perpendicular to the tube axis having a much stronger effect on the rotation frequency than B-vector{sub ext} parallel to the tube axis. In contrast to the effect of B-vector{sub ext} on the induction motor, parallel B-vector{sub ext} had a stronger detrimental effect on the cathode-anode electron beam, whose path was at 16 deg. to the tube axis, than the perpendicular B-vector{sub ext}. Parallel B-vector{sub ext} of several hundred Gauss had a defocusing effect on the x-ray focal spot. B-vector{sub ext} perpendicular to the electron beam shifted the beam without significant defocusing. We have determined that the direct conversion flat panel detector (FPD) technology is not intrinsically sensitive to B(vector sign){sub ext}, and that the modifications required to make the proposed FPDs MRI compatible are minimal. The homogeneity of the MRI signal in the normal field of view was not significantly degraded by the presence of these x-ray components in the vicinity of the MRI bore entrance.
- OSTI ID:
- 20853403
- Journal Information:
- Medical Physics, Vol. 33, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1118/1.2219328; (c) 2006 American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-2405
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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