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MRI-compatible implants
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| mitcheroo 2006-08-18, 4:26 pm |
| Imagine this: a company devices specialized coatings for pacemakers,
bone pins and screws, stents, catheters, neurostimulators, electrodes,
etc., that
1, completely eliminates "blooming" around the implant's image on the
MRI scan, and
2, eliminates or drastically reduces heating in these implants caused
by induction from the MRI's magnetic field.
QUESTION: So what? Is it worth anything?
In other words: Are current work-arounds to the above-mentioned
problems cost-effective and efficacious enough to negate bothering with
introducing (and adjusting to) new coatings?
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| mitcheroo 2006-08-19, 8:27 am |
| Sorry -- I meant "a company devises".
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| yuriha 2006-08-21, 2:24 am |
| imagine this :
*you have implants and you hate when these heats by the frecuent MRIs
*you have patients whose implant "bloom" on the images
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mitcheroo wrote:
> Imagine this: a company devices specialized coatings for pacemakers,
> bone pins and screws, stents, catheters, neurostimulators, electrodes,
> etc., that
>
> 1, completely eliminates "blooming" around the implant's image on the
> MRI scan, and
>
> 2, eliminates or drastically reduces heating in these implants caused
> by induction from the MRI's magnetic field.
>
> QUESTION: So what? Is it worth anything?
>
> In other words: Are current work-arounds to the above-mentioned
> problems cost-effective and efficacious enough to negate bothering with
> introducing (and adjusting to) new coatings?
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