Pacemaker interference by magnetic fields at power line frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 254-262

  Dawson, Trevor W ^a,e   Caputa, Kris ^a   Stuchly, Maria A ^a,e   Shepard, Richard B ^b,e   Kavet, Robert ^c   Sastre, Antonio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Kentucky   (United States)

^c ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d A S Consulting and Research Inc   (United States)

^e IEEE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacemaker; Electromagnetic interference; Modeling; Power lines

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMOTIVE FORCES;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

PACEMAKERS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PACEMAKER FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0036173914     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.983460     Document Type: Article

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