Open AccessDoes cerebral oximetry always measure brain tissue oxygen saturation? An anatomical study utilizing computed tomography
Author(s) -
Rotem Naftalovich,
Darrick Chyu,
John T. Denny,
Aysha Hasan,
Enrique J. Pantin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/joacp.joacp_395_19
Subject(s) - medicine , scalp , nuclear medicine , cerebral cortex , cortex (anatomy) , anatomy , neuroscience , biology
to quantify the scalp-cortex distance and determine its variation among patients. We hypothesized that in a significant number of patients, this distance is greater than the maximum penetration depth of current cerebral oximeters.