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Implantable stents can be used as radiation antennas for wireless communication of cardiovascular health monitoring data. However, such stent can also lead to RF induced heating during MRI procedure. In this paper, we investigate the effect of different stent size on the antenna radiation performance as well as its RF induced heating during MRI procedure. Preliminary investigations show that longer stent typically yields to better radiation efficiency but suffers from higher temperature rises.

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Using absorption materials to reduce RF heating during MRI procedure is studied in this paper. Materials with different electromagnetic absorption characteristics are used to alter the EM and current distributions on the device. Consequently, the RF induced heating behaviors of external fixation devices can be reduced. Numerical and experimental studies are provided to demonstrate the potentials of reducing the RF heating for external fixation devices of using lossy materials.