RT Book, Section
A1 Gaillard, William D.
A1 Ryvlin, Philippe
A2 Duchowny, Michael
A2 Cross, J. Helen
A2 Arzimanoglou, Alexis
SR Print(0)
ID 1138409570
T1 When and Why Perform Functional Brain Imaging: Medical and Surgical Treatment of Pediatric Epilepsy
T2 Pediatric Epilepsy
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071496216
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138409570
RD 2024/04/23
AB Structural  and  functional  imaging  is  employed  to  help  identify  candidates  for  surgery,  to  plan  surgical  approaches,  and  to  inform  likelihood  of  favorable  outcome.  The  primary  role  of  imaging  is  to  help  identify  and  to  confirm  the  location  of  the  seizures  focus.  This  is  the  place  of  structural  MRI,  FDG-PET  (fluoro-deoxy  glucose  positron  emission  tomography),  and  SPECT  (single-photon  emission  computerized  tomography).  Surgical  outcome  is  high  when  focal  abnormalities  are  found  with  these  imaging  techniques.  Newer  techniques  used  in  planning  epilepsy  surgery,  fMRI,  and  DTI  (diffusion  tensor  imaging)  are  used  to  identify  areas  to  spare  or  to  avoid  during  resection.