Voxel based morphometry of FLAIR MRI in children with intractable focal epilepsy: Implications for surgical intervention

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1299-1305

  Riney, Catherine J ^a,b   Chong, William K ^c   Clark, Chris A ^b   Cross, J Helen ^b,c  

^a MATER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D; Brain; MR; Paediatric radiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CRYPTOGENIC FOCAL EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; INTRACTABLE FOCAL EPILEPSY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84860736661     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.12.043     Document Type: Article

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