The role of radionuclide imaging in epilepsy, part 2: Epilepsy syndromes

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1924-1930

  Kumar, Ajay ^a   Chugani, Harry T ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Epilepsy syndromes; FDG; PET; Radionuclide; Seizure; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CARBON ALPHAMETHYL TRYPTOPHAN C 11; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY SYNDROME; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTIC SPASM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SYNDROME; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; PROCEDURES; EPILEPSY SURGERY; EPILEPSY SYNDROMES; FDG; METHODOLOGY; PET; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

EPILEPSY; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY SURGERY; EPILEPSY SYNDROMES; FDG; PET; RADIONUCLIDE; SEIZURE; SPECT;

EID: 84891710856     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.129593     Document Type: Article

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