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  2. Safety of magnetic resonance imaging - Wikipedia

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    All patients are reviewed for contraindications prior to MRI scanning. Medical devices and implants are categorized as MR Safe, MR Conditional or MR Unsafe: [6] MR-Safe – The device or implant is completely non-magnetic, non-electrically conductive, and non-RF reactive, eliminating all of the primary potential threats during an MRI procedure.

  3. Medtronic Wins FDA Approval for MRI-Accessible Pacemaker - AOL

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    Patients with pacemakers in the U.S. had previously been dissuaded from using MRIs before Medtronic's first SureScan MRI-compatible pacemaker won approval a few years ago. Accoridng to Medtronic's ...

  4. Bone density - Wikipedia

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    A scanner used to measure bone density using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Bone density, or bone mineral density, is the amount of bone mineral in bone tissue.The concept is of mass of mineral per volume of bone (relating to density in the physics sense), although clinically it is measured by proxy according to optical density per square centimetre of bone surface upon imaging. [1]

  5. Artificial cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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    The first to be so specified was the Medtronic Revo MRI SureScan, approved by the US FDA in February 2011, [30] which was the first to be specified as MR conditional. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] There are several conditions to use of MR Conditional pacemakers, including certain patients' qualifications and scan settings.

  6. Mayo Clinic - Wikipedia

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    Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit hospital system with campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida. [22] [23] Mayo Clinic employs 76,000 people, including more than 7,300 physicians and clinical residents and over 66,000 allied health staff, as of 2022. [5]

  7. Magnetic resonance elastography - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a form of elastography that specifically leverages MRI to quantify and subsequently map the mechanical properties (elasticity or stiffness) of soft tissue. First developed and described at Mayo Clinic by Muthupillai et al. in 1995, MRE has emerged as a powerful, non-invasive diagnostic tool, namely as an ...

  8. Mayo Clinic Proceedings - Wikipedia

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    Mayo Clinic Proceedings is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier and sponsored by the Mayo Clinic. It covers the field of general internal medicine. The journal was established in 1926 as the Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic and obtained its current name in 1964.

  9. Why You Shouldn't Eat This Fruit Before an MRI - AOL

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    Side effects. Açai is generally safe to consume. However, it may throw off MRI results so talk to your doctor before eating it if you have an MRI scheduled soon, advises the National Institutes ...