MRI RF heating can potentially lead to thermal damages to biological tissues, especially for patients with medical implants, because the RF E-field may induce currents along the implant, leading to concentrated power deposition at implant-tissue interface. Previous methods for computing temperature change through MR scans indicated minimal effect from temporal resolution between 30s and 120s for patients without implants. However, for patients with medical implants, our study suggests that temperature/thermal dose is predicted more accurately with smaller time step sizes (<10s), because immediate response to the heating (increased blood perfusion) needs to be accounted for in a timely fashion.
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