Noninvasive Observations of Fluorinated Anesthetics in Rabbit Brain by Fluorine-19 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- 28 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 222 (4622) , 428-430
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6623084
Abstract
Fluorinated anesthetics were observed noninvasively in the brain of intact rabbits with fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. High-resolution fluorine-19 spectra of halothane, methoxyflurane, and isoflurane were obtained with a surface coil centered over the calvarium. Elimination of halothane from the brain was also monitored by this technique. Residual fluorine-19 signals from halothane (or a metabolite) could be detected as long as 98 hours after termination of anesthesia. These observations demonstrate the feasibility of using this technique to study the fate of fluorinated anesthetics in live mammals.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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