Wireless MRI device introduced to India
Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:03
A wireless MRI device has been introduced in India by US-based medical development firm St Jude.
The company has brought the Accent MRI pacemaker and Tendril MRI lead to the Asian nation, the Hindu Business Line reported.
Pacemakers and MRI scanners often do not function well together as the two products can interfere with how the other works, but by using the MRI activator it can allow people with the heart monitoring devices fitted to have scans.
The new scanner also allows for wireless transmissions between the device and the programmer, enabling remote home monitoring.
"Each year about one million pacemakers are implanted worldwide and it is estimated that up to 75 per cent of pacemaker patients could benefit from MRI scans during the lifetime of their devices," St Jude's said in a statement.
The medical sector is adapting to many of the innovations offered by wireless devices, with a tablet developed that can check if people are correctly taking their course of medicine.
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