Personal exposure to static and time‐varying magnetic fields during MRI system test procedures

To assess personal time‐weighted average (TWA) static magnetic field and time‐varying magnetic field exposure for several system testing tasks routinely conducted by engineers at an MRI manufacturing plant.

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