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. 2006 May 26;5:35. doi: 10.1186/1475-925X-5-35

Table 2.

Data for calculation of the power density PV of an active implant referring to Eq. 1 for an MRI sequence with an SAR of 4 W/kg (manufacturer declaration)

permeability of vacuum μ0 [V s/(A m)] 12.6E-7
magnitude of magnetic excitation field B1 [μT] 25
repetition time of MRI sequence TR [s] 2.23
duration of one excitation τ [ms] 0.80
number of identical excitations during TR N 246
duty cycle cdc N τ/TR cdc 0.09
pulse waveform modulation factor cpwm cpwm 0.45
Larmor frequency = resonance frequency of LC circuit ν0 [MHz] 63.8
ω0 = 2π ν0 ω0 rad/s 4.0 108
power loss density PV = P/(Q Vind) (Eq. 1) PV [mW/(cm3Q)] 4.0