Supplemental oxygen causes increased signal intensity in subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid on brain FLAIR MR images obtained in children during general anesthesia

Radiology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-55

  Frigon, Chantal ^a,c   Shaw, Dennis W W ^a   Heckbert, Susan R ^b   Weinberger, Edward ^a   Jardine, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anesthesia Brain, MR; Cerebrospinal fluid, MR; Magnetic resonance (MR), in infants and children; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; PROPOFOL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; DEVICE; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BREATHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 4644333728     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2331031375     Document Type: Article

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