3-Tesla High-Field Magnetic Resonance Neurography for Guiding Nerve Blocks and Its Role in Pain Management. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Interventional magnetic resonance (MR) neurography is a minimally invasive technique that affords targeting of small nerves in challenging areas of the human body for highly accurate nerve blocks and perineural injections. This cross-sectional technique uniquely combines high tissue contrast and high-spatial-resolution anatomic detail, which enables the precise identification and selective targeting of peripheral nerves, accurate needle guidance and navigation of the needle tip within the immediate vicinity of a nerve, as well as direct visualization of the injected drug for the assessment of appropriate drug distribution and documentation of the absence of spread to confounding nearby nerves.

publication date

  • August 20, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Interventional
  • Nerve Block
  • Pain Management

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84945494958

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.mric.2015.05.010

PubMed ID

  • 26499273

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 23

issue

  • 4