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Abstract #2732

Practical Approaches to Ensure We Do Not Exceed a Non-Standard SAR Level

Jonathan Ashmore1, 2, Gareth Barker3, Ruth O'Gorman4, Geoff Charles-Edwards2

1Neuroradiology, Kings College Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 2Medical Physics, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 3Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom; 4Center for MR Research, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

A number of device manufacturers report non-standard SAR limits as conditions for the safe scanning of patients with these devices implanted. In this work we compared how the SAR was displayed on the console and what evidence of SAR levels were recorded in the DICOM header for MRI systems from three major vendors. We investigated possibilities for creating low SAR protocols that are robust in terms of never exceeding a defined non-standard SAR limit in any case.

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