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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 Aug;26(2):437–441. doi: 10.1002/jmri.20977

Table 2.

Ratio of Maximum Local to Whole-Head Average SAR for a Human Head Model in a Volume Coil at Several Frequencies Compared to the Ratios in the Regulatory Limits

Frequency SAR1g/SARW SAR10g/SARW
64 MHz 6.1 3.4
128 MHz 5.2 3.2
200 MHz 5.6 3.5
300 MHz 5.4 4.1
340 MHz 6.7 5.0
400 MHz 6.0 4.4
FDA limits 2.7
IEC limits 3.12

FDA = Food and Drug Administration, IEC = International Electrotechnical Commission.