Method and system to predict radiofrequency heating of medical implants
AssigneeNorthwestern University
InventorLaleh Golestani Rad
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Abstract
A system to predict heating in implants includes a memory configured to store one or more phase images of a medical implant that is implanted within a patient. The one or more phase images include the medical implant and tissue surrounding the medical implant. The one or more phase images are based on an imaging pre-scan of the patient. The system also includes a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to analyze the one or more phase images to determine values for one or more properties of the tissue surrounding the implant. The processor also predicts, based at least in part on the analyzed one or more phase images, a temperature increase of the medical implant that will occur during a subsequent imaging scan of the patient.
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A system to predict heating in implants, the system comprising:
- a memory configured to store one or more phase images of a medical implant that is implanted within a patient, wherein the one or more phase images include the medical implant and tissue surrounding the medical implant, and wherein the one or more phase images are based on an imaging pre-scan of the patient;
- a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to:
- analyze the one or more phase images to determine values for one or more properties of the tissue surrounding the implant;
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- predict, based at least in part on the analyzed one or more phase images, a temperature increase of the medical implant that will occur during a subsequent imaging scan of the patient.
A method of predicting heating in implants, the method comprising:
- performing, by an imaging device, an imaging pre-scan of a patient with a medical implant;
- storing, in a memory of a computing device in communication with the imaging device, one or more phase images of the medical implant that is implanted within the patient, wherein the one or more phase images include tissue surrounding the medical implant, and wherein the one or more phase images result from the pre-scan of the patient;
- analyzing, by a processor of the computing device, the one or more phase images to determine values for one or more properties of the tissue surrounding the implant;
- and
- predicting, based at least in part on the analyzed one or more phase images, a temperature increase of the medical implant that will occur during a subsequent imaging scan of the patient.
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