RT Thermal
Multipoint, real time thermal monitoring
of MRI patients
RT Thermal
Multipoint, real time thermal monitoring
of MRI patients
Introducing RT Thermal
Global IP Patent Protection:
USA (#161413.201679-US)
Japan (#161413.161557-JP)
EU (#EP3212080)
RT Thermal has developed the world's first non-contact thermal imaging system designed specifically for the MRI Environment. Our system combines thousands of real time surface temperature measurements of patients, coils and the MRI environment to help you identify areas where patient RF surface burns may occur.
The RT Thermal solution combines 3 key elements to provide the industries first holistic and automated solution aimed at detecting potential sources of RF burns before they happen.
MRI Camera
The MRI Camera features a proprietary perspective control lens providing a top down view inside the bore.
Control Room Console
The Control Room Console provides an intuitive interface to monitor the environment
MRI Thermal Wear
MRI Thermal Wear is MRI safe and comes in a wide range of sizes to ensure comfort of your patients.
This 3 part system continuously monitors thousands of temperature points at a time. This whole body, real time monitoring helps alert the MRI staff of temperature changes at a specific location giving them time to alter the patient’s position, garment or scan protocol before an injury occurs.
The MRI thermal imaging system uses an Infrared Camera positioned in the direct line of site of the MRI Scanner bore. The MRI Thermal Camera acquires thousands of surface temperature measurements continuously to help clinicians and technicians identify potential RF burn sources.
The system utilizes an all in one touchscreen computing display in the control room to act as your watchdog. The system is automatically scanning the environment and will alert the user when conductive material has been left on the patient, creating a loop or if a thermal hot spot is forming.
MRI Safety
The RT Thermal system can augment current MRI safety practices and help identify areas where patient RF surface burns he RT Thermal system can augment current MRI safety practices and help identify areas where patient RF surface burns may occur.
MRI Safety
The RT Thermal system can augment current MRI safety practices and help identify areas where patient RF surface burns he RT Thermal system can augment current MRI safety practices and help identify areas where patient RF surface burns may occur.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an essential tool in medicine that provides important diagnostic information that would otherwise not be obtained using other techniques.
While MRI is often considered one of the safer imaging modalities due to its lack of ionizing radiation, other dangers remain for patients, with thermal burns being a chief concern. The risk of burns is not a new concept, though we are still learning more about their causes and how to prevent them.
According to a Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert which cited that nearly 70 percent of FDA reported MRI complications are related to thermal burns.
FDA Reported MRI Hazards
Most adverse RF burn events from MRI have been found to be due to improper patient positioning or improper equipment use.
Inside the bore of the MRI machine, radiofrequency (RF) coils apply a pulse to hydrogen atoms in the area being imaged. This pulse creates a RF field that provides energy to the atoms in order to generate an image. However, this RF field is also capable of inducing currents that can lead to thermal injury.
Most of the RF burn prevention techniques recommended by the governing bodies are manual procedures which are prone to error. RT Thermal is the only automated way to detect if conductive items are present inside the MRI and heating up.
FDA Reported Burn Frequency
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