Measurement and evaluation of specific absorption rate and temperature elevation caused by an artificial hip joint during MRI scanning

Abstract A primary safety concern in a magnetic resonance imaging environment is heating of metallic implants by absorbing radiofrequency (RF) energy during MRI scanning. Experimental measurement in conjunction with computational modeling was used to evaluate the risk of biological tissue injury fro...

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Main Authors: Youngseob Seo, Zhiyue J. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80828-7