• DocumentCode
    2867110
  • Title

    Computational and experimental studies of orthopedic implants heating under MRI RF coils

  • Author

    Liu, Yan ; Chen, Ji ; Shellock, Frank ; Kainz, Wolfgang

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, TX 77204, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    17-22 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The heating of orthopedic implants under MRI RF fields were investigated 1.5T and 3T systems. Modeling and experiments were performed on an orthopedic device at different sizes inside an ASTM phantom. It is observed that the induced energy deposition near the device is almost linearly related to the dimension of the orthopedic implants when the device is less than 10 cm in length. Higher temperature rises were found in 1.5T for both computational and experimental studies.
  • Keywords
    Coils; Conductors; Heating; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic resonance; Radio frequency; MRI Safety; electromagnetic modeling; heating; medical implants;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2012 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, QC, Canada
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1085-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0149-645X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259617
  • Filename
    6259617