Interventional MRI

Houston Methodist CMR Laboratory

MEDICAL ROBOTICS LABORATORY

Provides Guidance Restricts Unwanted Motion

Our custom-made Force-feedback Device

MIROS: A MRI-Guided Robot-Assisted Surgical System: Force-Feedback Equipped Interface for robot Control. Tremor Filter. Motion Scaling.

Visual Force-Feedback Interfacing for Image guided Telemanipulated Surgical Systems.‐

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Long-Axis CINE Image Long-Axis Real-Time Image

Dynamic Interventional

Environment

Imaging Modality(MRI Scanner)

Sufficient Information

MIROS: Next Steps

Assess feasibility of performing CMR guided robotic interventions using

animal models

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MITIE (The Methodist institute for Technology Innovation and Education)

A research dedicated 1.5T Siemens scanner has been installed

Houston Methodist Hospital Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Laboratory will have complete access to this scanner

Interventional animal experiments will be performed in the MITIE center

GOAL: CMR guided procedures

Biopsy (for heart transplant and heart mass evaluation)

Pressure and pressure/volume RV evaluation in congenital cases

Vascular Interventions (endographgs, stents, …)

Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedures

Prostate procedures