Dose-related Effects of Single Focal Irradiation in the Medial Temporal Lobe Structures in Rats

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-7

  Ishikawa, Shuichi ^a   Otsuki, Taisuke ^a   Kaneki, Masaya ^a   Jokura, Hidefumi ^a   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

epilepsy; radiation necrosis; radiosurgery; temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; GAMMA IRRADIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NECROSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032937739     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.1     Document Type: Article

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