Additional file 2.

Temperature and SAR measures on PM leads. The Excel file (2007 version) contains the temperature raw data collected during the RF exposure of PM leads. For each configuration, which corresponds to a single column of the file, a schematic representation of the experimental set-up is reported. For each configuration, we also calculated the difference between the baseline and the highest temperature reached during the RF exposure (dT - °C), as well as the SAR (W/kg), from the slope of the initial temperature increase (see Methods section for details). The file is divided into 5 sheets, which refers to different locations or structures of the lead: - left imp.-0,1,2 loops (PM can positioned in the upper left region of the phantom, with the lead that makes 0, 1 or 2 loops around it); - right imp.-0,1,2 loops (PM can positioned in the upper right region of the phantom, with the lead that makes 0, 1 or 2 loops around it); - Bipolar leads; - rect. VS human-shaped phantom (comparison between same configuration in the rectangular and in the human-shaped phantom). The first column of each sheet contains the time reference for the temperature values.

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Mattei et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2008 7:11   doi:10.1186/1475-925X-7-11