For many years, patients with a pacemaker, ICD or CRT device, have been denied access to MRI. The cardiac devices were not approved for MRI scanning and the influence of magnetic resonance imaging on implanted cardiac systems was not yet tested.

In 2009 BIOTRONIK received, as one of the leading medical device companies, its first approval to label a pacemaker family and the respective leads as MR conditional. Today BIOTRONIK offers in more than 100 countries a comprehensive portfolio of pacemaker-, ICD- and CRT systems and cardiac monitors which are tested and approved to be MR conditional. BIOTRONIK therefore allows patients implanted with these device systems to undergo MRI scans under certain conditions.