Reconfigurable MRI coil technology can substantially reduce RF heating of deep brain stimulation implants: First in-vitro study of RF heating reduction in bilateral DBS leads at 1.5 T

• Laleh Golestanirad ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Laleh.rad1@northwestern.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3869-6114

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• Ehsan Kazemivalipour,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

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• Boris Keil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Life Science Engineering, Institute of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection, Giessen, Germany

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• Sean Downs,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• John Kirsch,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Behzad Elahi,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Bryan Health, Lincoln, NE, United States of America

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• Julie Pilitsis,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, United States of America

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• Lawrence L. Wald

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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