ISMRM24 - ISMRM-ISMRT Joint Forum: Navigating MRI Safety After Trauma

ISMRM-ISMRT Joint Forum: Navigating MRI Safety After Trauma

Weekday Course

ORGANIZERS: Kate Negus

Monday, 06 May 2024

Summit 1

08:15 - 10:10

Moderators: Sony Boiteaux & Ji Eun Park

Session Number: M-01

CME and CE Credit

Session Number: M-01

Overview
A variety of presentations on trauma MRI including Radiologist, Physicist and Radiographer’s/Technologist’s perspectives on the challenges of imaging the trauma patient and some practical solutions.

Target Audience
Technologists/Radiographers, Radiologists/Clinicians and Physicists

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Summarize types of imaging, safety issues and implants most encountered in neurological trauma cases;
- Describe how to prepare a patient from the intensive care unit for MR scanning, considering that they may have life support devices, monitoring and trauma implants; and
- Optimize imaging protocols without compromising image quality, focusing on minimizing scan time and artefacts.

08:15		Safety Aspects of Trauma Patients Undergoing Neuroimaging Sumeet Kumar
08:40		Safe Imaging in Patients from the Intensive Care Unit Weiling Lee
09:00		Sequence Optimization for Trauma Imaging: The Never Ending Quest for Faster MRI Emre Kopanoglu Keywords: Image acquisition: Fast imaging, Transferable skills: Safety We will discuss various ways to accelerate MRI scans in clinical settings such as partial Fourier, parallel imaging, and compressive sensing. We will elaborate on the main advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Then, we will explore some of the safety concerns in MRI that impact scan duration, in order to uncover indirect ways to reduce scan time further. We will expand the safety discussion towards the presence of implants, discussing implant safety definitions and their implications for scanning. We will also examine the effect of metallic implants on image quality and describe some techniques to reduce such effects.
09:25		Spinal Trauma Imaging Safety: The "Trauma" of Trauma Spine in MRI Ilse Patterson This presentation will cover things to consider when scanning a Trauma spine in MRI. It will cover some safety in MR aspects, what to look out for to remove before MRI. Things to consider and think about before scanning a trauma patient, preparation of the scanner room, things to get ready. Some indications for doing a trauma spine MRI. What sequences to use and then a few examples of cases.
09:40		MRI Safety with External Fixation Device: A Case Study Kate Negus I will present a case study of the safety procedure conducted to assess if a patient with an external fixation device was safe to scan in MRI
09:55		Q&A