Neuroimaging of epilepsy

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 279-281

  Kuzniecky, Ruben I ^a,b   Knowlton, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; MRI; Neuroimaging; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCLEROSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036765492     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36647     Document Type: Review

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