Do airport metal detectors interfere with implantable pacemakers or cardioverter-defibrillators?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2054-2059

  Kolb, Christof ^a,b   Schmieder, Sebastian ^a   Lehmann, Günter ^a   Zrenner, Bernhard ^a   Karch, Martin R ^a   Plewan, Andreas ^a   Schmitt, Claus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD;

EID: 0037975740     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00424-8     Document Type: Article

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