Yes,sedation or anesthesiais typically required for dogs undergoing an MRI. This is because the dog needs to remain completely still during the scan, which can take anywhere from30 minutes to over an hour. Even the slightest movement can blur the images, making them unusable for diagnostic purp...
In these limited tb-fMRI cases (1) the patient was too impaired to perform tb-fMRI, (2) the patient performed poorly during tb-fMRI per clinician observation during scanning, (3) had no to weak tb-fMRI BOLD signal specific to the language area of clinical interest near the tumor, (4)...