Abstract #2557

Real Time MRI for Guidance of Electrophysiological Interventions Using Carbon Catheters

Peter Nordbeck^1,2, Oliver Ritter¹, Florian Fidler³, Marcus Warmuth², Karl-Heinz Hiller³, Matthias Nahrendorf⁴, Michelle Maxfield⁵, Sabine Wurtz⁵, Wolfgang Geistert⁵, Peter M. Jakob², Wolfgang R. Bauer¹

¹Medizinische Klinik I, Universitt Wrzburg, Wrzburg, Germany; ²Experimentelle Physik V, Universitt Wrzburg, Wrzburg, Germany; ³Forschungszentrum MRB, Wrzburg, Germany; ⁴Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; ⁵Biotronik GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

MRI has been proposed a beneficial imaging modality for investigations and interventions in clinical electrophysiology (EP). Recently, first successful diagnostic EP investigations under real time MRI guidance have been reported. In the current work, a custom setup including MR conditional catheters was used to perform interventional EP studies in a porcine model under real time MRI guidance, including initial experiments of post-procedural lesion mapping.