Imaging of malformations of cortical development

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-205

  Colombo, Nadia ^a   Salamon, Noriko ^b   Raybaud, Charles ^c   Özkara, Çigdem ^d   Barkovich, A James ^e  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; Focal cortical dysplasia; Magnetoencephalography; MRI; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70449672929     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2009.0262     Document Type: Review

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