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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Jun 8;55(23):2614–2662. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.11.011

Table 10.

Safety Terminology for Implanted Devices

MR safe A device that poses no hazards in the MR environment.
MR conditional A device that poses no known hazards in a specific MR imaging environment with constraints on the conditions of use. These constraints may include, e.g., the magnetic field strength or specific absorption rate.
MR unsafe An item that is known to pose hazards in all MR environments.

MR indicates magnetic resonance.