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Abstract #1785

Cardiac Pacing in an MRI Environment

Gene Hilton Payne1,2, Gaston Vergara2,3, Ravi Ranjan2,3, Kamal Vij4, Nelly Volland1,2, Eugene Kholmovski1,2, Sathya Vijayakumar1,2, Josh Blauer2,5, Kimberly Johnson2,3, Greg Gardner2,5, Glenn Meredith6, Tongbai Meng6, Rob MacLeod2,5, Nassir F. Marrouche2,3

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.