Cerebellum abnormalities in idiopathic generalized epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures revealed by diffusion tensor imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Li, Yonghui ^a,b   Du, Hanjian ^c   Xie, Bing ^c   Wu, Nan ^c   Wang, Jian ^c   Wu, Guocai ^c   Feng, Hua ^c   Jiang, Tianzi ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; SEIZURES;

EID: 78650993128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015219     Document Type: Article

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