DESIGN CONFIGURATION OF MRI SUITES

 

2.2-3.4.4.2 Design Configuration of the MRI Suite:

 

1. Suites for MRI equipment shall be planned to conform to the four-zone screening and access control protocols identified in the American College of Radiology’s “Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices”.
   
   
2. The layout shall include provisions for the following functions:
   a. Patient interviews and clinical screening
   b. Physical screening and changing areas (as indicated)
   c. Siting of ferromagnetic detection systems
   d. Access control
   e. Accommodation of site-specific clinical and operational requirements
   
   
3. An anteroom visible from the control room shall be located outside the MRI scanner room so that patients, health care personnel, and other employees must pass through it before entering the scanning area and control room. This room shall be outside the restricted areas of the MRI’s magnetic field.
   
   
4. Any area in which the magnetic field strength is equal to or greater than 5 gauss (0.5 millitesla) shall be physically restricted by the use of key locks or pass-key locking systems.
   

 

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