These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Artifacts caused by cosmetics in MR imaging of the head.
    Author: Sacco DC, Steiger DA, Bellon EM, Coleman PE, Haacke EM.
    Journal: AJR Am J Roentgenol; 1987 May; 148(5):1001-4. PubMed ID: 3495103.
    Abstract:
    Cosmetics can produce severe distortion of the orbital contents in MR imaging. This distortion, typical of compounds that exhibit a permanent magnetic moment, results from iron oxide in the pigments used to produce dark shades of makeup. In general, the artifact created by cosmetics does not interfere with interpreting routine head scans. However, if the orbital contents are the subject of clinical concern, the images may then be rendered nondiagnostic. The artifact created by the makeup is propagated along the frequency-encoding axis of the images.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]