The most interesting thing I remember about this work was the fun we had in our pretty extraordinary multidisciplinary team. This was in the early days of clinical investigation of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for various disorders, and we had the critical task to determine the MR safety conditions for the devices, information for the benefit of the DBS program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, for Medtronic, and for  patients worldwide. We had the most luminary MR safety expert, with extensive experience with MR device safety testing, a brilliant MR imaging scientist, a brilliant engineer from Purdue, leading scientists from Medtronic, a young superstar neurosurgeon leading the DBS program at the Clinic, and me and Paul, a couple of neuroradiologists with considerable technical MR expertise. We created a head and torso tissue phantom, developed a measurement methodology, got together on several weekends in Cleveland for full days of measurements, generated a ton of good data, and managed to have a great time!

 

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