… Compared to CT and MRI, ultrasonic imaging requires less hardware and acquisition time, …
intracardiac ultrasound probes and arrive at a concept for a next-generation imaging catheter. …

… echography (TEE) for structural heart interventions. The existing commercial ICE catheters,
however, offer a limited 2D or 3-D field … In order to use ICE catheters under MRI instead of the …

… 3-D image guidance. The use of robotic assistants within the … over CT and ultrasound because
MRI provides high-fidelity … realizing MRI-guided robotic intracardiac catheter procedures is …

… transfer of synthetic aperture ultrasound images as well as … focused on developing 3-D ICE
that would be MRI safe, by … intra cardiac catheter having a typical diameter of about 3 mm. …

… (3-D) strain maps derived from magnetic resonance imaging (… An MR-compatible Millar
catheter-tip micromanometer (… , a time to repetition of 6.5 ms, a time to echo of 2.1 ms, a 256 × 96 …

… the intracardiac probe positioned in the right atrium. Then, intracardiac echocardiography can
… Third, a specific MRI catheter without a heating phenomenon had to be developed. These …

… (eg, being MRI compatible and free of ferromagnetic materials)… (ultrasound, X-ray) with
preoperative 3D images (CT, MRI) (… of the catheters in comparison to tendon-driven catheters. The …

… (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound (US). … US (IVUS) and intra-cardiac
echocardiography (ICE) have … With the trend of miniaturizing transducer size, 3-D imaging …

… To localize a high velocity intracardiac shunts or in the … 3D MR-angiography complements
echo and catheterization … cine imaging, MR-angiography with 3-D reconstruction and velocity …

… is also designed to be MRI compatible for future research. The … A 3-D imaging will also
eliminate another limitation of this … with emphasis on echography, image-guided catheter-based …