Evaluation of the RF heating of a generic deep brain stimulator exposed in 1.5T magnetic resonance scanners

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 104-113

  Cabot, Eugenia ^a   Lloyd, Tom ^b   Christ, Andreas ^a   Kainz, Wolfgang ^c   Douglas, Mark ^a   Stenzel, Gregg ^b   Wedan, Steve ^b   Kuster, Niels ^a,d  

^a FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

^b Imricor Medical Systems   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active implantable medical devices; MRI; RF safety

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NEUROSURGERY;

'CURRENT; ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCY COUPLING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNERS; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING; RADIO-FREQUENCY SAFETIES; RADIOFREQUENCIES; RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; TISSUE HEATING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIO WAVES; TEMPERATURE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872397956     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.21745     Document Type: Article

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