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Galanaud and Puybasset Critical Care 2010,14:135 /content/14/2/135 COMMENTARY Cardiac arrest - has the time of MRI come? Damien Galanaud* and Louis Puybasset See related research by Choi et al., /content/14/1/R17 MRI is now widely available, and, with some precau- Abstract tions, can be performed in patients under mechanical ventilation. Despite the fact that MRI with di? usion- weighted imaging (DWI) has been shown to e? ciently detect anoxo-ischemic brain injury (especially in stroke), its application for the evaluation of cardiac arrest patients Three r