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Biophan Tests MRI Safe Shielding Technology

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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 21 -- Biophan Technologies Inc. announced it has successfully tested a method for shielding implanted and interoperative medical devices against interference from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The tests, conducted in a 1.5 Tesla MRI machine, prevented most of the radio frequency (RF) energy emitted by the MRI machine from reaching the shielded samples. The RF energy from an MRI is known to be the cause of dangerously high tissue heating and other performance problems in electronic medical devices used in the body, such as implantable pacemakers,...Read full article

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