Obstructive sleep apnea in pediatric patients: evaluation with cine MR sleep studies.
Cine magnetic resonance (MR) imaging sleep studies have become a useful tool in the evaluation of obstructive sleep apnea in children with certain categories of pathologic conditions. In this article, the author describes a program for the use of cine MR sleep studies in the evaluation of children with obstructive sleep apnea. The following areas are discussed: clinical indications, patient preparation, anatomic considerations, MR technique, technical issues, image interpretation, commonly encountered diagnoses, volume segmentation processing of data, and controversial areas.
Donnelly
Lane F
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Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 5031, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3039, USA. Lane.Donnelly@cdhmc.org
D002648:Child; D016292:Procedural Sedation; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology