Structural and functional neuroimaging in intractable epilepsy

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-370

  Chinchure, Swati ^a   Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a   Thomas, Bejoy ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; functional magnetic resonance imaging; intractable epilepsy; magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; single photon emission tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; OPIATE; SEROTONIN;

BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLIOSIS; GRANULOMA; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAMMILLARY BODY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAL MIGRATION DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASCULAR TUMOR; VISION; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77955062901     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.65569     Document Type: Review

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