Tuned energy balanced system for minimizing heating and/or to provide emi protection of implanted leads in a high power electromagnetic field environment

A tuned energy balanced system for minimizing heating of an implanted lead and/or providing EMI protection in a high power electromagnetic field environment, comprising:

• an implanted lead having impedance characteristics at a selected RF frequency or frequency band;
• an energy dissipating surface associated with the implanted lead;
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• an energy diversion circuit conductively coupling the implanted lead to the energy dissipating surface, the energy diversion circuit comprising one or more passive electronic network components whose impedance characteristics are at least partially tuned to the implanted lead's impedance characteristics, to facilitate transfer to the energy dissipating surface of high frequency energy induced on the implanted lead at the selected RF frequency or frequency band.