A study of antenna efficiency and MRI compatibility of cardiac stent

Author

Dawei Li ; Xin Huang ; Ji Chen ; Kainz, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

4-8 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

170

Abstract

Implantable stents can be used as radiation antennas for wireless communication of cardiovascular health monitoring data. However, such stent can also lead to RF induced heating during MRI procedure. In this paper, we investigate the effect of different stent size on the antenna radiation performance as well as its RF induced heating during MRI procedure. Preliminary investigations show that longer stent typically yields to better radiation efficiency but suffers from higher temperature rises.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; antennas; biomedical MRI; biomedical communication; cardiovascular system; MRI compatibility; MRI procedure; RF induced heating; antenna efficiency; antenna radiation performance; cardiac stent; cardiovascular health monitoring data; implantable stents; induced heating; radiation antennas; radiation efficiency; wireless communication; Antennas; Coils; Heating; Implants; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radio frequency; Solid modeling; Biomedical wireless communication; Implantable stent implants; MRI Compatibility; Radiation efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Raleigh, NC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5544-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEMC.2014.6898963

Filename

6898963