Ouri Cohen1, Ming Zhao2, Erez Nevo3, Jerome L Ackerman4. 1. Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts; Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: ouri@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu. 2. Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts; Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts. 3. Robin Medical Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. 4. Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts; Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To demonstrate a proof of concept of magnetic resonance (MR) coagulation, in which MR imaging scanner-induced radiofrequency (RF) heating at the end of an intracatheter long wire heats and coagulates a protein solution to effect a vascular repair by embolization. MATERIALS AND METHODS: MR coagulation was simulated by finite-element modeling of electromagnetic fields and specific absorption rate (SAR) in a phantom. A glass phantom consisting of a spherical cavity joined to the side of a tube was incorporated into a flow system to simulate an aneurysm and flowing blood with velocities of 0-1.7 mL/s. A double-lumen catheter containing the wire and fiberoptic temperature sensor in 1 lumen was passed through the flow system into the aneurysm, and 9 cm3 of protein solution was injected into the aneurysm through the second lumen. The distal end of the wire was laid on the patient table as an antenna to couple RF from the body coil or was connected to a separate tuned RF pickup coil. A high RF duty-cycle turbo spin-echo pulse sequence excited the wire such that RF energy deposited at the tip of the wire coagulated the protein solution, embolizing the aneurysm. RESULTS: The protein coagulation temperature of 60°C was reached in the aneurysm in ∼12 seconds, yielding a coagulated mass that largely filled the aneurysm. The heating rate was controlled by adjusting pulse-sequence parameters. CONCLUSIONS: MR coagulation has the potential to embolize vascular defects by coagulating a protein solution delivered by catheter using MR imaging scanner-induced RF heating of an intracatheter wire.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate a proof of concept of magnetic resonance (MR) coagulation, in which MR imaging scanner-induced radiofrequency (RF) heating at the end of an intracatheter long wire heats and coagulates a protein solution to effect a vascular repair by embolization. MATERIALS AND METHODS:MR coagulation was simulated by finite-element modeling of electromagnetic fields and specific absorption rate (SAR) in a phantom. A glass phantom consisting of a spherical cavity joined to the side of a tube was incorporated into a flow system to simulate an aneurysm and flowing blood with velocities of 0-1.7 mL/s. A double-lumen catheter containing the wire and fiberoptic temperature sensor in 1 lumen was passed through the flow system into the aneurysm, and 9 cm3 of protein solution was injected into the aneurysm through the second lumen. The distal end of the wire was laid on the patient table as an antenna to couple RF from the body coil or was connected to a separate tuned RF pickup coil. A high RF duty-cycle turbo spin-echo pulse sequence excited the wire such that RF energy deposited at the tip of the wire coagulated the protein solution, embolizing the aneurysm. RESULTS: The protein coagulation temperature of 60°C was reached in the aneurysm in ∼12 seconds, yielding a coagulated mass that largely filled the aneurysm. The heating rate was controlled by adjusting pulse-sequence parameters. CONCLUSIONS:MR coagulation has the potential to embolize vascular defects by coagulating a protein solution delivered by catheter using MR imaging scanner-induced RF heating of an intracatheter wire.
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