1. Cardiac pacemaker: In vitro assessment at 1.5 T
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Shellock, Frank G., Fieno, David S., Thomson, Louise J., Talavage, Thomas M., and Berman, Daniel S.
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Cardiac patients ,Health - Abstract
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2005.04.015 Byline: Frank G. Shellock (a), David S. Fieno (b), Louise J. Thomson (a)(b), Thomas M. Talavage (c), Daniel S. Berman (b) Abstract: In vitro testing is used to determine safe parameters before performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on a patient with an implant. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate a cardiac pacemaker using a 1.5-T magnetic resonance (MR) system. Author Affiliation: (a) Departments of Radiology and Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, and Institute for Magnetic Resonance Safety, Education, and Research, Los Angeles, CA (b) Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (c) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Article History: Received 26 December 2004; Accepted 7 April 2005
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- 2006