Advances in MRI for 'cryptogenic' epilepsies

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-108

  Bernasconi, Andrea ^a   Bernasconi, Neda ^a   Bernhardt, Boris C ^a   Schrader, Dewi ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79751537645     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2010.199     Document Type: Review

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