Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the thalamus in patients with typical absence epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 533-540

  Fojtiková, Dagmar ^a   Brázdil, Milan ^a   Horký, Jaroslav ^b   Mikl, Michal ^a   Kuba, Robert ^a   Krupa, Petr ^c   Rektor, Ivan ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   (Czech Republic)

^c ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chemical shift imaging; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Thalamus; Typical absence epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATINE; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEURONS; THALAMUS;

EID: 33748472439     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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