Heating around intravascular guidewires by resonating RF waves

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-85

  Konings, Maurits K ^a   Bartels, Lambertus W ^a   Smits, Henk F M ^a   Bakker, Chris J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Endovascular; Guidewire; Interventional MRI; Nitinol; RF heating; Safety

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; TITANIUM;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; HEATING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; STENOSIS;

BLOOD VESSELS; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HEAT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033945858     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-2586(200007)12:1<79::AID-JMRI9>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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