Pacemaker reed switch behavior in 0.5, 1.5, and 3.0 tesla magnetic resonance imaging units: Are reed switches always closed in strong magnetic fields?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1419-1423

  Luechinger, Roger ^a   Duru, Firat ^b   Zeijlemaker, Volkert A ^b   Scheidegger, Markus B ^b   Boesiger, Peter ^b   Candinas, Reto ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance; MRI; Pacemaker; Reed switch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0036800991     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.01419.x     Document Type: Article

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