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Cardiac

MRI-compatible pacemaker

by Aziz on February 15, 2007

in Cardiac

via MedGadget,
Medtronic began the evaluation of its EnRhythm® MRI SureScan™ pacer, a technology designed for safe use in MRI machines, “under specified scanning conditions.” The company did not disclose what these specified scanning conditions are.
There’s a copy of the press release, too. I assume that certain kinds of scans are off-limits, like diffusion imaging. [...]

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