Abstract #1785

Cardiac Pacing in an MRI Environment

Gene Hilton Payne^1,2, Gaston Vergara^2,3, Ravi Ranjan^2,3, Kamal Vij⁴, Nelly Volland^1,2, Eugene Kholmovski^1,2, Sathya Vijayakumar^1,2, Josh Blauer^2,5, Kimberly Johnson^2,3, Greg Gardner^2,5, Glenn Meredith⁶, Tongbai Meng⁶, Rob MacLeod^2,5, Nassir F. Marrouche^2,3

¹UCAIR, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; ²CARMA Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ³Department of Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; ⁴SurgiVision, Inc., Irvine, CA, United States; ⁵SCI, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; ⁶Center for Applied Medical Imaging, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, United States

During an RF ablation procedure for treatment of atrial fibrillation, cardiac pacing is sometimes used to enforce a normal sinus rhythm at a specific rate.