Evaluation of cerebral white-matter micro-structural alterations in patients with medically refractory epilepsy using diffusion tensor tractography

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 82-90

  Kori, Prakash ^a   Garg, Ravindra Kumar ^a   Malhotra, Hardeep Singh ^a   Gupta, Rakesh Kumar ^b   Verma, Rajesh ^a   Singh, Maneesh Kumar ^a   Rathore, Ram Kishore Singh ^c   Gupta, Pradeep Kumar ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor tractography; Epilepsy surgery; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medically refractory epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER LESION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR TRACTOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY SURGERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICALLY REFRACTORY EPILEPSY;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84886946231     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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