IMSaT houses GE’s first European Centre of Excellence for MRI guided Interventions and Surgery including 1.5 Tesla MRI suite, and X-Ray arm. This is fully equipped with all required facilities for interventional surgical research including the latest Focused Ultrasound system
ExAblate (Insightec Ltd., Israel) with body and confomal system, and MR compatible Robotic Arm for percutaneous interventions
Innomotion (Innomedic GmbH, Germany).
Main areas of research
- Soft Embalmed Thiel Human cadavers as a simulator for MR-guided interventional procedures including:
- Establishing perfusion and breathing motion in Thiel cadavers,
- 2D and 3D MR Angiography and conventional X-Ray angiography of the cadavers, and
- Real Time MR Imaging of breathing motion established in Thiel cadavers.
- Improvement of the visualization of vascular implants e.g. vena cava filters, stents and prosthetic heart valves in MRI,
- Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE),
- MR Thermometry, and
- MR Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging.
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