Regional atrophy of the basal ganglia and thalamus in idiopathic generalized epilepsy

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 817-821

  Du, Hanjian ^a   Zhang, Yuanchao ^b,c   Xie, Bing ^a   Wu, Nan ^a   Wu, Guocai ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Jiang, Tianzi ^b   Feng, Hua ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

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

Author keywords

Atrophy; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; MRI; Subcortical structures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VERTEX BASED SHAPE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; THALAMUS;

EID: 79953241926     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22416     Document Type: Article

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