Magnetic resonance induced heating of implantable leads

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-240

  Triventi, Michele ^a   Mattei, Eugenio ^a   Calcagnini, Giovanni ^a   Censi, Federica ^a   Bartolini, Pietro ^a   Kainz, Wolfgang ^b   Bassen, Howard ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial; Electromagnetic energy; Fluorescent probes; Heating; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEAT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 35348981874     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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