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Pacemaker lead tip heating in abandoned and pacemaker-attached leads at 1.5 tesla MRI.
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PMID:  21274985     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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PURPOSE: To assess the risk of RF-induced heating in pacemaker-attached and abandoned leads using in vitro temperature measurements at 1.5 Tesla as a function of lead length.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Five custom lead lengths, 20-60 cm, were exposed to a uniform magnitude and phase radiofrequency electric field to examine the effect of lead length on pacemaker lead tip heating for pacemaker-attached and abandoned pacemaker leads.
RESULTS: Abandoned and pacemaker-attached leads show resonant heating behavior and maximum heating occurs at different lead lengths due to the differences in termination conditions. For clinical lead lengths (40-60 cm) abandoned leads exhibited greater lead tip heating compared with pacemaker-attached leads.
CONCLUSION: Current recommendations for MRI pacemaker safety should highlight the possible increased risk for patients with abandoned leads as compared to pacemaker-attached leads. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2011;33:426-431. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Authors:
Deborah A Langman; Ira B Goldberg; J Paul Finn; Daniel B Ennis
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI     Volume:  33     ISSN:  1522-2586     ISO Abbreviation:  J Magn Reson Imaging     Publication Date:  2011 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-01-28     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9105850     Medline TA:  J Magn Reson Imaging     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  426-31     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Affiliation:
Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA; Biomedical Physics Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA. dlangman@mednet.ucla.edu.
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