Quantitative analysis of cerebral blood flow patterns in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy using composite SISCOM

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-43

  Kaiboriboon, Kitti ^a   Bertrand, Mary E ^b   Osman, Medhat M ^b   Hogan, R Edward ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

SPECT; Subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (SISCOM); Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASAL GANGLION; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INSULA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 15044357453     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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