Christina E. Saikus1, Merdim Sonmez1,
1Translational Medicine Branch,
Division of Intramural Research, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
Devices
for interventional MRI must be evaluated for potential radiofrequency induced
heating but phantom heating tests can be difficult to relate to intended uses
in vivo. We examined in vivo and
post-mortem in situ device heating in swine and more realistic phantom in
vitro testing of an actively visualized guidewire for interventional
cardiovascular MRI.
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