Imaging: Imaging Approaches to Seizure Analysis: PET Analysis

Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1531-1543

  Kumar, A ^a   Chugani, H T ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha methyl tryptophan (AMT); Epilepsy; FDG; Flumazenil (FMZ); Functional imaging; Infantile spasm; Lennox Gastaut syndrome; Neuroinflammation; Pediatric; PK11195; Positron emission tomography (PET scan); Rasmussen's encephalitis; Seizure; Sturge Weber syndrome; Tuberous sclerosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79851503954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373961-2.00046-1     Document Type: Chapter

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