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Figure 13

From: Finite volume analysis of temperature effects induced by active MRI implants: 2. Defects on active MRI implants causing hot spots

Figure 13

Various distances between a hot spot and a planar heat sink for a 'tissue only' simulation. Already within 30 s a hot spot very close to a cooling blood flow – capable of transporting all applied energy immediately away – reaches a substantial critical volume using a critical temperature of 5 K. Notice that Figure 13d is differently scaled. The time development of the critical volume is shown in Figure 14.

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