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Tuesday Jul 26, 2005
Tattoo-Induced Skin Burn During MR Imaging
Tian alerted us to an interesting article which suggests that there's a chance that yo can receive a skin burn from a tattoo while getting an MR. The article says:
"A 23-year-old man sustained a second-degree skin burn in two skin tattoos while undergoing cervical spine MR imaging at 1.5-T using a phased array coil. The study consisted of a sagittal spoiled gradient-refocused acquisition in the steady state localizer (23 sec), sagittal T1-weighted spin-echo imaging (3 min 44 sec), sagittal T2-weighted fast spin-echo imaging with multiple (16) 180° radiofrequency (RF) pulses (3 min 16 sec), and axial multiplanar gradient-re-called sequences using gradient acquisition with a 20° flip angle (4 min 23 sec). At the end of the examination the patient complained of a burning sensation in his right deltoid area, which was raised and swollen. The patient was treated in the emergency department for a second-degree skin burn and returned 24 hr later, when multiple color photographs"
Yo can read the full article here.
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