Magnetic Resonance Imaging on Patients with Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers

• Main Author: Seitz, Sebastian (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2011
• Series: Karlsruhe transactions on biomedical engineering / Ed.: Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / Institute of Biomedical Engineering
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; pacemaker; MRI; numerical field calculation; biomedical engineering
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The aim of this work was to identify the patterns that can induce heating around implanted cardiac pacemakers during MRI and to develop strategies to counteract them. Two approaches were taken: computer simulations of the occurring electromagnetic field distributions and in-vitro experiments using p...