Correlating 3T MRI and histopathology in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 182-189

  Lockwood Estrin, Georgia ^a,c   Thom, Maria ^a   Focke, Niels K ^a,b   Symms, Mark R ^a   Martinian, Lillian ^a   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a   Duncan, John S ^a   Eriksson, Sofia H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlations; Diffusion tensor; FLAIR; Histopathology; Imaging; MRI; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856428010     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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