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From: Measurement and evaluation of specific absorption rate and temperature elevation caused by an artificial hip joint during MRI scanning

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SAR (A) and Temperature distribution (B) near an artificial hip joint using Sim4Life version 4.4 software (Zurich Med Tech, Zurich, Switzerland. https://zmt.swiss/sim4life/). The local SAR values were normalized to the whole-body averaged SAR of 2 W/kg. The SAR value was 23.9 W/kg near the tail of the artificial hip joint. The maximum temperature (= 39.7 °C at 8 min exposure at MRI, compared to base temperature at 37 °C) appear near the tail of the artificial hip joint.

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