Citation

Bertrand A, Brunel S, Habert MO, Soret M, Jaffre S, Capeau N, Bourseul L, Dufour-Claude I, Kas A, Dormont D. Radiology 2018; 286(2): 568-570.

Affiliation

From the Department of Neuroradiology, AP-HP Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France (A.B., D.D.); Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Inserm, CNRS, Institut du Cerveau et la Moelle (ICM), AP-HP-Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France (A.B., D.D.); Aramis Project Team, Inria Paris, Paris, France (A.B., D.D.); Department of Nuclear Medicine, AP-HP Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, F-75013, Paris, France (S.B., M.O.H., M.S., S.J., A.K.); Biomedical Department, AP-HP Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, F-75013, Paris, France (N.C., L.B.); and GE Healthcare, Buc, France (I.D.C.).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Radiological Society of North America)

DOI

10.1148/radiol.2017162921

PMID

28858565

Abstract

In this report, a case of fire in a positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system due to blanket combustion is discussed. Manufacturing companies routinely use copper fibers for blanket fabrication, and these fibers may remain within the blanket hem. By folding a blanket with these copper fibers within an MR imaging system, one can create an electrical current loop with a major risk of local excessive heating, burn injury, and fire. This hazard applies to all MR imaging systems. Hybrid PET/MR imaging systems may be particularly vulnerable to this situation, because blankets are commonly used for fluorodeoxyglucose PET to maintain a normal body temperature and to avoid fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in brown adipose tissue. (©) RSNA, 2017.

Language: en