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This article is about a way to determine, before turning the MRI on at full power, if an MRI exam will be safe for a specific patient with a metallic device inside.
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This work is new in that it provides a quantitative measure of the safety of a certain scan. Previous work had only served to test if a metallic object was coupled to the MRI at all, but failed to distinguish between safe and dangerous coupling levels.
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This page is a summary of: Safely assessing radiofrequency heating potential of conductive devices using image‐based current measurements, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, January 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25103.
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