United Kingdom completed the world's first cases of magnetic resonance imaging in cardiac surgery

United Kingdom doctors recently for a six-year-old boy had heart surgery, and other operation, the operation does not use x-rays to perspective on the human body, but in the world's first magnetic resonance imaging for this kind of surgery for cardiac pulmonary valve expansion.

London Kings College 11, release the Communique says that researchers use and Germany counterparts to develop technologies for the operation.

This boy suffering from congenital pulmonary valve stenosis, which is the heart of the right ventricle leads to pulmonary stenosis, resulting in a outlet blood flow. The treatment is to be a conduit along the blood vessels to the pulmonary valve position, similar to the balloon catheter front-end devices will pulmonary valve distraction, the past is the use of x-rays to the "pivot" tracking catheter in the movement in the human body.

X-pose-radiation for body development in the early days of children against larger, so the researchers decided to use another "perspective" technology, magnetic resonance imaging technology to track the movement of the catheter.

And magnetic resonance imaging is the clarity of the screen also.

Operation of catheter containing a metal wire, magnetic resonance imaging techniques used in the magnetic field, the wire will tremble, its front side is also possible to heat up to 70 degrees Celsius.

Therefore, German researchers over the past three years the cooperation developed a glass fibre yarn, containing small amounts of iron for scanning and imaging, which could avoid the above problems.

King's College, University of London in Garissa · la Zaouia said that the use of these new technologies, their security successfully completed the little boy's surgery.

This new technology is expected to bring the Gospel to other patients.