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Poster Sessions
Safety: Non-RF
Exhibition Hall Wednesday 13:30-15:30
1785. Cardiac Pacing in an MRI Environment
Gene Hilton Payne 1,2 , Gaston Vergara 2,3 , Ravi Ranjan 2,3 , Kamal Vij 4 , Nelly Volland 1,2 , Eugene Kholmovski 1,2 , Sathya
Vijayakumar 1,2 , Josh Blauer 2,5 , Kimberly Johnson 2,3 , Greg Gardner 2,5 , Glenn Meredith 6 , Tongbai Meng 6 , Rob
MacLeod 2,5 , Nassir F. Marrouche 2,3
1 UCAIR, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 2 CARMA Center, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, UT; 3 Department of Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 4 SurgiVision, Inc., Irvine, CA,
United States; 5 SCI, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 6 Center for Applied Medical Imaging, Siemens Corporate
Research, Princeton, NJ, United States
1786. Increased PNS Thresholds using a Novel Composite Gradient System
Kenneth Craig Goodrich 1 , William Bradfield Handler 2 , Seong-Eun Kim 1 , John Rock Hadley 1 , Ulrich A. Rassner 3 ,
Blaine A. Chronik 2 , Dennis L. Parker 1
1 UCAIR, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 2 Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario, Canada; 3 Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
1787. Threshold for Peripheral Nerve Stimulation with Ultra-Fast Gradients
Irving N. Weinberg 1 , Pavel Stepanov, Steven C. Glidden 2 , Howard D. Sanders, Daniel Warnow, Alan B. McMillan 3 ,
Rao P. Gullapalli, Piotr M. Starewicz 4 , Kai-Ming Lo, Amnon Fisher 5 , J. Patrick Reilly 6 , Michael S. Niziol 7 , Stanley T.
Fricke 8
1 Weinberg Medical Physics LLC, Bethesda, MD, United States; 2 Applied Pulsed Power Inc., Freeville, NY, United States;
3 Radiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; 4 Resonance Research, Inc,, Billerica, MA; 5 Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Israel; 6 Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD; 7 Family Practice Associates, Dryden,
NY; 8 Radiology, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
1788. Maximum DB/dt & Switching Noise in 1.5T MRI Scanners for Safety Evaluation of Active Implantable Medical
Device
Neha Bharat Butala 1 , Ramez Emile Necola Shehada 1 , Peter Nabil Costandi 1 , Ali Dianaty 1 , Kevin Jurkowski 1
1 Cardiac Rhythm Management Division, St. Jude Medical, Sylmar, CA, United States
1789. Magnetic Field Monitoring using a Novel Wireless Sensor System in an Intra-Operative MRI Workflow
Kirk Champagne 1,2 , Tim Hoeppner 2 , David Weber 2 , Ta-Yung Liu 1 , Mehran Fallah-Rad 1 , Mark Alexiuk 1,3
1 IMRIS, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 2 Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;
3 Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada
1790. In-Situ Study of Active Noise Control Applied to MRI Noise
Mingfeng Li 1 , Brent Rudd 1 , Teik C. Lim 2 , Jing-Huei Lee 3,4
1 Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States; 2 Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, United States; 3 School of Energy, Environment, Biological & Medical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
OH, United States; 4 Center for Imaging Reserch, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
1791. Methods for the Quantitative Assessment of Image Artifacts Caused by Implantable Devices
Benjamin Anthony Coppola 1 , Ramez Emile Necola Shehada 1 , Peter Nabil Costandi 1 , Kevin Jurkowski 1 , Ali Dianaty 1
1 Cardiac Rhythm Management Division, St Jude Medical, Sylmar, CA, United States
1792. Evaluation of Magneto Alert Sensor (MALSE) to Improve MR Safety by Decreasing the Incidence of
Ferromagnetic Projectile Accidents
Conrad Steven Martin 1 , Tobias Frauenrath 1 , Celal Özerdem 1 , Wolfgang Renz 1,2 , Thoralf Niendorf 1,3
1 Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility, Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; 2 Siemens Medical Solutions,
Siemens, Erlangen, Germany; 3 Charité Campus Buch, Humboldt-University, Experimental & Clinical Research Center (ECRC),
Berlin, Germany
1793. How Safe Are Intrauterine Devices at MRI Procedures with Field Strength Beyond 1.5T?
Jaane Rauschenberg 1 , Jens Groebner 1 , Wolfhard Semmler 1 , Michael Bock 1
1 Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
1794. Experimental Design to Measure Neurocognitive Effects Due to Static Magnetic Field & to Movement Within
the Stray Field at 0T, 1.5T, 3T & 7T
Jaane Rauschenberg 1 , Jens Groebner 1 , Angela Heinrichs 2 , Anne Szostek 2 , Patric Meyer 2 , Frauke Nees 2 , Georgios
Paslakis 3 , Maria Gilles 3 , Michael Bock 1 , Michael Deuschle 3 , Herta Flor 2 , Wolfhard Semmler 1
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