1402

View Abstract / View Presentation

UVC Based Wireless Patient Bore Disinfection Utilizing Scanner RF Transmission

Devavrat Likhite¹, Rob Amerling¹, Leon Lee¹, and Saban Kurucay¹
¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States

The presented UVC based wireless patient bore disinfection fixture, utilizing scanner RF transmission, is able to disinfect the patient bore and table of a 3T GE MR system in 2-minutes and a 1.5T GE MR system in 6-minutes (UVC dose >40mJ/cm2).

Figure 4 UVC fixture operating and disinfecting the inner surfaces of the bore and patient table on a 3T Signa Premier system

Table 1 shows the used UVC dots and corresponding UVC dose measured on various GE MR systems_{(Color representation
in the table may not be accurate due to image capture challenges. Refer to the corresponding
numerical dose value presented)}