ISMRM Best Practices for Safety Testing of Experimental RF Hardware

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • De Zanche, Nicola
  • van den Berg, Cornelis
  • Brunner, David
  • Murphy-Boesch, Joseph
  • Rispoli, Joseph
  • Adriany, Gregor
  • Avdievich, Nikolai
  • Boulant, Nicolas
  • Brink, Wyger
  • Brown, Ryan
  • Fiedler, Thomas
  • Gilbert, Kyle
  • Golestani Rad, Laleh
  • Gruber, Bernhard
  • Keil,Boris
  • Kraff, Oliver
  • Magill, Arthur
  • Mareyam, Azma
  • Navarro de Lara, Lucia
  • Oh, Sukhoon
  • Rao, Mahdwesha
  • Santini, Tales
  • Steensma, Bart
  • Winter, Lukas
  • Wood, Sossena
  • Yetişir, Filiz

• This white paper was authored by the Working Group on Best Practices for Safety Testing of Experimental RF Hardware of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). Its purpose is "to assist experts in MRI scanner hardware with obtaining local research ethics approvals for radio frequency (RF) devices built at the research site". The white paper includes information on risk management and common mitigation strategies used to ensure the safety of site-built RF coils and other RF devices used on research subjects.
  This record mirrors the original published on the ISMRM web site in the MR Safety Resources section (https://www.ismrm.org/mr-safety-links/).

• Date created

  2022-03-08

• Subjects / Keywords

  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • radio frequency
  • RF coils
  • RF safety
  • medical devices
  • biomedical engineering
  • electromagnetic simulations
  • IEC 60601

• Type of Item

  Report

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-7vpe-x737

• License

  Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International