Apparent diffusion coefficient measurements in the hippocampus and amygdala of patients with temporal lobe seizures and in healthy volunteers

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 250-256

  Hakyemez, Bahattin ^a,b   Erdogan, Cuneyt ^a   Yildiz, Harun ^c   Ercan, Ilker ^a   Parlak, Mufit ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Bursa State Hospital   (Turkey)

^c SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Diffusion weighted imaging; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 13844256296     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.12.008     Document Type: Article

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