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The authors review the relevant cardiac implantable electronic devices encountered in practice today, the background physics/technical factors related to scanning these devices, the multidisciplinary screening protocol used at their institution for scanning patients with implantable cardiac devices, and their experience in safely performing these examinations since 2010.

Seventy-seven patients with unilateral internal carotid artery stenosis underwent preoperative 3DT2*-weighted imaging using a multiple dipole-inversion algorithm with a 7T MR scanner. Quantitative susceptibility mapping images wereobtained, and oxygen extraction fraction maps were generated. Quantitative brain perfusion single-photon emission CT was alsoperformed before and immediately after carotid endarterectomy. Ten patients (13%) showed post–carotid endarterectomy hyperperfusion. Multivariate analysis showed that a high quantitative susceptibility mapping–oxygen extraction fraction ratio was significantly associated with the development of post–carotid endarterectomy hyperperfusion.