Localization in Epilepsy

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1015-1030

  Placantonakis, Dimitris G ^a   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; FMR1; MEG; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGEON;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70350062091     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2009.08.004     Document Type: Review

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