Understanding anesthesia through functional imaging

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 530-536

  Ramani, Ramachandran ^a   Wardhan, Richa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Connectivity; Functional imaging; Pain; Regional cerebral blood flow

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; FENTANYL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEVOFLURANE; XENON;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMAGING; INSULA; METABOLISM; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 53549107204     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32830edbf3     Document Type: Review

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