Interventional devices such as actively visualized catheters or guidewires have a long conductive line between the source and the probe at the tip. Long conductive wires can interract with the electromagnetic fields generated by the transmit coils resulting in RF-induced heating of surrounding tissue. Existing standards do not cover partial immersion and dynamic motion of such devices. In this study, we propose an automated electric field detection and mapping system that is capable of performing hotspot detection, transfer function(TF) measurement and TF validation using different dipole antennae. RF-induced heating can be evaluated without moving the device, thus eliminating positioning errors.
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