Pocket Guide to MR Procedures and Metallic Objects: Update 1999

This new edition enables radiologists to recognize risks and avoid injuries when performing MR procedures on patients with metallic bioimplants, prostheses, and other objects. It covers the full range of metallic objects encountered during MR procedures, including over 150 new implants. The user-friendly tabular format makes it easy to find the highest field strength at which an object was tested, whether it was deflected or moved, and whether the attraction to the magnetic field would pose a hazard for a patient undergoing an MR procedure. A key appendix walks the reader through the medical equipment developed for interventional MR procedures.