MR safety assessment of potential RF heating from cranial fixation plates at 7 T

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kraff, Oliver ^a   Wrede, Karsten H ^a   Schoemberg, Tobias ^a   Dammann, Philipp ^a   Noureddine, Yacine ^a,b   Orzada, Stephan ^a   Ladd, Mark E ^a   Bitz, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b MR:comp GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

RF heating; safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BIOMAGNETISM; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEATING; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAFETY TESTING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE QUALITIES; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS; HUMAN BODY MODELING; POLARIZATION EFFECT; RELEVANT COMPONENTS; RF HEATING; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; THERMAL SIMULATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FOLLOW UP; HEATING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE SAFETY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEAT; INTERNAL FIXATOR; PROSTHESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKULL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BONE PLATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SKULL;

EID: 84876193481     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4795347     Document Type: Article

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