Abstract #0194

Assessment & Completion of RF Ablation for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation using Real-Time MRI Guidance

Sathya Vijayakumar^1,2, Eugene G. Kholmovski^1,2, Ravi Ranjan^2,3, Gaston Vergara^2,3, Joshua Blauer^2,4, Gene Payne^1,2, Nelly Volland^1,2, Kamal Vij⁵, Gregory Gardner^2,4, Peter Piferi⁵, Kimberly Johnson^2,3, Li Pan⁶, Klaus Kirchberg⁶, Rob MacLeod^2,4, Christopher J. McGann^2,3, Nassir F. Marrouche^2,3

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

In this work, we study the feasibility of an EP-MRI workflow for RF ablation procedures for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. This approach consists of the assessment of ablation performed in the EP-suite using MRI, and completing the ablation procedure in the MRI-suite if necessary using real time MRI guidance. This work flow may possibly reduce the number of repeat ablation procedures.