Title :
Piece-wise excitation system for the characterization of local RF-induced heating of AIMD during MR exposure
Author :
Zastrow, Earl ; Capstick, Myles ; Cabot, Eugenia ; Kuster, Niels
Author_Institution :
IT´IS Found., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
An experimental system that is capable of characterizing the RF-induced heating of active implantable medical devices is developed. The system is used to experimentally characterize the local RF-induced heating of generic implants and the obtained experimental results are compared with numerical results obtained from full-wave computational electromagnetic simulations.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; biomedical equipment; biothermics; prosthetics; radiofrequency heating; AIMD; MR exposure; active implantable medical devices; full-wave computational electromagnetic simulations; generic implants; local RF-induced heating; piece-wise excitation system; Benchmark testing; Computational modeling; Heating; Implants; Numerical models; Predictive models; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetic Compatibility, Tokyo (EMC'14/Tokyo), 2014 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
