Electrical conductivities of the freshly excised cerebral cortex in epilepsy surgery patients; correlation with pathology, seizure duration, and diffusion tensor imaging

Brain Topography

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 281-290

  Akhtari, M ^a,b   Salamon, N ^a   Duncan, R ^b   Fried, I ^a   Mathern, G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Conductivity; Cortical dysplasia; DTI; EEG; MEG

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BIOPSY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748136118     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-006-0006-x     Document Type: Article

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