18F-FDG PET studies in patients with extratemporal and temporal epilepsy: Evaluation of an observer-independent analysis

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 737-746

  Drzezga, Alexander ^a   Arnold, Stephan ^b   Minoshima, Satoshi ^b   Noachtar, Soheyl ^b   Szecsi, Johann ^b   Winkler, Peter ^b   Römer, Wolfgang ^b   Tatsch, Klaus ^b   Weber, Wolfgang ^b   Bartenstein, Peter ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

18F fluorodeoxyglucose; Computer assisted image processing; Epilepsy; Extratemporal; PET

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032587873     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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