Brain imaging in the assessment for epilepsy surgery

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 420-433

  Duncan, John S ^a   Winston, Gavin P ^b   Koepp, Matthias J ^c   Ourselin, Sebastien ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^d Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84960480153     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(15)00383-X     Document Type: Review

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