MRI Safety Guidance Outlines Testing, Labeling Terms For Passive Implants
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
An Aug. 21 FDA guidance document on device safety for magnetic resonance imaging offers makers of passive implants three options for describing their products in labeling - MR safe, MR unsafe or MR conditional
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