Safety of active implantable devices during MRI examinations: A finite element analysis of an implantable pump

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 726-733

  Büchler, Philippe ^a   Simon, Anne ^b   Burger, Jürgen ^b   Ginggen, Alec ^c   Crivelli, Rocco ^c   Tardy, Yanik ^c   Luechinger, Roger ^d   Olsen, Sigbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b School of Engineering and Information Technology   (Switzerland)

^c Research and Development Department of Codman SA   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomedical equipment safety; Finite element methods; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT SAFETY; IMPLANTABLE PUMPS; RADIOFREQUENCY FIELDS;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMPLANT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MINIPUMP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BURNS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33947538322     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.890145     Document Type: Article

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