Oblique proton chemical shift imaging for the presurgical localization of mesial temporal epilepsy

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 619-623

  Xue, Min ^a   Ng, Thian C ^a   Majors, Anthony ^a   Modic, Michael ^a   Kolem, Heiner ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

chemical shift imaging (CSI); hippocampal formation (HF); mesial temporal epilepsy (MTE); oblique plane

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS; NEUROLOGY;

CHEMICAL SHIFT IMAGING; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION; MESIAL TEMPORAL EPILEPSY (MTE); OBLIQUE PLANES; PROTON CHEMICAL SHIFTS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

CHEMICAL SHIFT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0030911944     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370423     Document Type: Article

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