### Instruction:

Extract the cause and effect entities from the following sentence:
Instrument decontamination requires that the Infrared sensors are switched off, thus interrupting the imaging in these channels

### Assistant:

VARIABLE: the imaging in these channels
CONDITION: interrupting
KEYWORD: thus
CAUSE_1: Instrument decontamination requires that the Infrared sensors are switched off
EFFECT_1: interrupting the imaging in these channels

