A numerical assesment of the effect of MRI surface coils on implanted pacemakers
- 1 July 2012
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
Abstract
Electromagnetic interaction between a radio frequency surface coil for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a heterogeneous human model implanted with a pacemaker system has been studied in order to provide safety requirements and to estimate potential damaging of the device. Since the coil can be considered an electrically small structure, an equivalent model has been considered and validated in order to reduce calculation burden in time domain simulation by using a Finite Integration Technique (FIT).Keywords
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