MRI equipment use "must cease" in the EU - unless derogation possible under forthcoming law
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
"I do not see how the Commission can address the threat to the future of MRI without proposing an EU-wide derogation for MRI from the scope of the [Physical Agents] Directive on public health grounds." That is the view of Professor Gabriel Krestin, professor and chairman of the Department of Radiology at Erasmus University in response to the publication of a new study by Professor Stuart Crozier, professor and director of the biomedical engineering group at the University of Queensland. Prof Crozier's report, published on June 14, demonstrates that changes to existing MRI practice would not be sufficient to comply with Directive 2004/40/EC, the EU Physical Agents Directive, which is due to be fully enforced in April 2008; thus, the use of current MRI equipment and procedures would need to stop.