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Since MRI today is the standard procedure for depicting pituitary adenomas with the best possible resolution, it seems reasonable that attempts have been made to integrate MR scanners into operative suites for intraoperative imaging. There are many variants of such dedicated systems available, with 0.15 T (low field) or 1.5 T and 3.0 T (high field) magnets. Usually, the surgical procedure is interrupted for imaging. In any situation, for generating intraoperative images either the patient or the magnet has to move. Depending on the field strength of the system, the acquisition times and the quality of the images vary considerably.
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Buchfelder, M., Schlaffer, SM. (2016). Intraoperative MRI. In: MRI of the Pituitary Gland. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29043-0_25
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