NEMA MS 10-2010

NEMA MS 10-2010 defines methods for determining the local specific absorption rate of diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging radio frequency coils under a specific set of conditions. This document does not address whole-body SAR. Local SAR may be determined near coil conductors, transmission lines, or any other desired region. It may be useful in some cases to first do the pulse energy method described in NEMA MS-8 so that both whole-body and local SAR are measured. Heating other than radio frequency heating (such as thermal heating from surface coil blocking networks) is not addressed in this standard.