An in silico testbed for fast and accurate MR labeling of orthopedic implants

© 2023, Noetscher, Serano et al..

One limitation on the ability to monitor health in older adults using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is the presence of implants, where the prevalence of implantable devices (orthopedic, cardiac, neuromodulation) increases in the population, as does the pervasiveness of conditions requiring MRI studies for diagnosis (musculoskeletal diseases, infections, or cancer). The present study describes a novel multiphysics implant modeling testbed using the following approaches with two examples: (1) an in silico human model based on the widely available Visible Human Project (VHP) cryo-section dataset; (2) a finite element method (FEM) modeling software workbench from Ansys (Electronics Desktop/Mechanical) to model MR radio frequency (RF) coils and the temperature rise modeling in heterogeneous media. The in silico VHP-Female model (250 parts with an additional 40 components specifically characterizing embedded implants and resultant surrounding tissues) corresponds to a 60-year-old female with a body mass index of 36. The testbed includes the FEM-compatible in silico human model, an implant embedding procedure, a generic parameterizable MRI RF birdcage two-port coil model, a workflow for computing heat sources on the implant surface and in adjacent tissues, and a thermal FEM solver directly linked to the MR coil simulator to determine implant heating based on an MR imaging study protocol. The primary target is MR labeling of large orthopedic implants. The testbed has very recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a medical device development tool for 1.5 T orthopedic implant examinations.

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UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Oct 02;:. - PMID 37649909

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

eLife - 12(2023) vom: 14. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Noetscher, Gregory M [VerfasserIn]
Serano, Peter J [VerfasserIn]
Horner, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Prokop, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Hanson, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Fujimoto, Kyoko [VerfasserIn]
Brown, James [VerfasserIn]
Nazarian, Ara [VerfasserIn]
Ackerman, Jerome [VerfasserIn]
Makaroff, Sergey N [VerfasserIn]

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Case Reports
Human
Journal Article
MR imaging studies
MR safety/labeling
Multiphysics modeling
Orthopedic impants
Physics of living systems
Temperature rise

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Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 21.12.2023

published: Electronic

Dryad: 10.5061/dryad.2jm63xswt

UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Oct 02;:. - PMID 37649909

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7554/eLife.90440

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365868035