MR Safety Strategies to Help You Stay Current with MR Safety Standards
This is a partial list of MR Safety resources available online. The content of these sites is not controlled or endorsed in any way by the ISMRM or SMRT. If you have suggestions for additional sites, or one of the listed sites seems no longer functional, please let us know.
MR Safety Reference Documents
- A Closer Look at the Thresholds of Thermal Damage: Workshop Report by an ICNIRP Task Group (2016) (pdf)
- ACR Addresses FDA Gadolinium Safety Concerns (2016)
- ACR contrast media manual (2017)
- American College of Radiologists guidelines for contrast media
- ACR Guidance Document on MR Safe Practices: 2013 (2013)
- American College of Radiologist’s MR guidelines
- AHRA: Emergency Preparedness for Imaging Service Providers
- British Heart Rhythm Society: Safe use of MRI in people with cardiac implantable electronic devices (2015)
- British Cardiology guidance document on the use of Pacemakers in MR scanners
- CAR Standard for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2011)
- Canadian Association of Radiologists MR guidelines
- EU Directives on MR safety (2013)
- European Union MR safety guidelines
- FDA Guidance on "Assessment of RF-Induced Heating in the MR Environment for Multi-Configuration Passive Medical Devices" (2016) (pdf)
- FDA site for reporting adverse events (website last updated 2016)
- A link to the Federal Drug Administration’s’ data base for reporting all adverse events
- FDA MR Safety Alert (2014)
- MRI Safety: FDA Safety Communication
- FDA Safety Alert on Gadolinium (2015)
- Gadolinium-based Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Drug Safety Communication - FDA Evaluating the Risk of Brain Deposits With Repeated Use
- Gadolinium Retention Updates & Resources (2016)
- Compiled for the SMRT by Greg Brown, A.Dip.Rad.Tech.
- GE Healthcare: Class I Recall (2015)
- MRI Systems with Magnet Rundown Unit by GE Healthcare: Class I Recall - Potential Disabling of the Magnet Rundown Unit
- Guidelines for documentation and consent for nonclinical, nonresearch MRI in human subjects. (2017)
- Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Coronary Artery Stents Referred for MRI Procedures* (2017)
- Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Heart Valve Prostheses and Annuloplasty Rings Referred for MRI Procedures* (2017)
- IPEM safety statement (2013)
- Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicines’ MR Safety Guidelines
- The Joint Commission Revised Requirements for Diagnostic Imaging Services (2015)
- Joint Commission 2015 MR guidelines
- MHRA Safety Guidelines for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment in Clinical Use (2015)
- Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency MR guidance document
- MR Procedure Screening Form for Patients (2010)
- MR system operator: recommended minimum requirements for performing MRI in human subjects in a research setting. (2015)
- MRISafety.com
(website updated 2018)
- A comprehensive list of implants and devices with conditional information; MRI safety topics; MRI screening policies and screening forms
- Patient and Individual Screening Information (website last updated 2017)
- Safety Concerns with Implantable Infusion Pumps in the Magnetic Resonance (MR) Environment: FDA Safety Communication (2017)
- U.S. Federal Safety Standards, Guidelines and Regulations for MRI Systems: An Overview (2015)
- FDA’s MR safety guidelines
- Using MRI Safely – Practical Rules for Employees (2008)
- Dutch guidelines on MR Safety