Comparison of manual tracing versus a semiautomatic radial measurement method in temporal lobe MRI volumetry for pharmacoresistant epilepsy

Neuroradiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 189-201

  Mueller, Christian Andreas ^a   Scorzin, Jasmin ^a   Koenig, Roy ^a   Urbach, Horst ^a   Fimmers, Rolf ^a   Zentner, Josef ^b   Lehmann, Thomas Nicolas ^c   Schramm, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

MRI; Pharmacoresistant epilepsy; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THERAPY RESISTANCE; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33847357360     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-006-0171-3     Document Type: Article

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