X-ray radiation causes electromagnetic interference in implantable cardiac pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1174-1181

  Hirose, Minoru ^a   Tachikawa, Keiichi ^b   Ozaki, Masanori ^a   Umezawa, Naoki ^a   Shinbo, Toshihiro ^a   Kokubo, Kenichi ^a   Kobayashi, Hirosuke ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

electromagnetic interference; implantable cardiac pacemaker; x ray

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; IMPLANT; RADIATION DOSE; SEMICONDUCTOR; X RAY;

HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 77957369872     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02846.x     Document Type: Article

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