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Safety Policy
Here is an overview of the safety rules and regulations currently in place at the Imaging Center. All users are required to attend a full safety inservice prior to independent operation of the scanners.
The IRC follows ACR safety zone rules.
- Zone 1 is the unrestricted area of the main lobby and the east and south hallways.
- Zone 2 is the restricted card key accessed north hallway outside of the scanner control rooms. No one is allowed in this zone unless accompanied by a safety trained lab member. A verbal screening for pacemakers will be performed prior to admittance to this zone.
- Zone 3 consists of the scanner control rooms. Anyone entering this area will be required to remove all loose ferrous metal from their persons and secure such in the lockers provided for this purpose.
- Zone 4 consists of the MRI magnet rooms. No one may be brought into this area without having completed the MR screening form. This form will have been reviewed and signed by both the subject/patient and the safety trained lab member. Nothing may be brought into this area without the direct authorization of the scan operator.
All IRC MRI users are required to complete a MRI safety inservice. This inservice must be renewed annually. All MRI operators are required to be certified for scanner operation by the IRC Imaging Specialist.
MRI users are required to sign both the subject screening form and the scan session form.
There must be minimum of a one to one ratio of safety trained lab members to subjects/patients and anyone who may be accompanying these subjects (i.e. parent, other family member). In the instances where a family member accompanies the subject into the restricted area, one lab member will be assigned the role of Safety Monitor for that person. Only one additional family member will be allowed into the restricted area at a time. This rule is in effect at all times.
Scans being performed outside of regular business hours (Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm, non-holiday) are required to have a minimum of two safety trained lab members present during the scan session.
All personnel must have a working knowledge of, and a willingness to, follow all safety requirements.
Here is a good resource produced by the NIMH in 2005:
mri-research-safety-ethics.pdf
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