Diffusion tensor tractography detection of functional pathway for the spread of epileptiform activity between temporal lobe and Rolandic region

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-190

  Bhardwaj, Ratan D ^a   Mahmoodabadi, Sina Zarei ^a   Otsubo, Hiroshi ^a   Snead III, O Carter ^a   Rutka, James T ^a   Widjaja, Elysa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Neurogenesis; Pediatric; Physiology; Stem cells; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING TRACTOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EXTERNAL CAPSULE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ROLANDIC SULCUS; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77949268271     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-1017-1     Document Type: Article

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