. 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 3.

Ratio of Maximum Local to Whole-Body Average SAR for Two Different Subjects in a Whole-Body Volume Coil Compared to the Ratios in Corresponding Regulatory Limits^*

	Subject	SAR_1g/SAR_W	SAR_10g/SAR_W
64 MHz	1	18	10
	2	16	11
128 MHz	1	18	10
	2	16	13
FDA limits		2	–
IEC limits		–	5

Results derived recently from calculations for a previous publication (8).

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