MR Imaging Safety Siting and Zoning Considerations

Although comparatively much younger as a discipline, these early decades of the structure of practice of MR imaging safety have developed in an alarmingly ad hoc manner, particularly when contrasted with contemporary ionizing radiation safety. This absence of structure and metrics for MR imaging safety has impaired the direct safety best practices for the recognizable domains of clinical and operational MR safety. If the built environment of MR imaging is effectively the hardware of the mechanism of health care delivery, then the appropriateness of this hardware to the software (clinical and operational practices) is of great importance.