Excessive temperature increases in pacemaker leads at 3-T MR imaging with a transmit-receive head coil

Radiology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 948-949

  Shellock, Frank G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; HEATING; HUMAN; LETTER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXIMETRY; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67449142859     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2513090034     Document Type: Letter

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