Decision‐making in stereotactic epilepsy surgery

KJ Miller, AL Fine - Epilepsia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Surgery can cure or significantly improve both the frequency and the intensity of seizures in
patients with medication‐refractory epilepsy. The set of diagnostic and therapeutic …

Nuclear imaging for localization and surgical outcome prediction in epilepsy: A review of latest discoveries and future perspectives

C Sukprakun, S Tepmongkol - Frontiers in neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. Approximately, one-
third of patients with epilepsy have seizures refractory to antiepileptic drugs and further …

Use of innovative SPECT techniques in the presurgical evaluation of patients with nonlesional extratemporal drug-resistant epilepsy

A Yassin, K El-Salem, AH Al-Mistarehi… - Molecular …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Up to 30% of patients with epilepsy may not respond to antiepileptic drugs. Patients with
drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) should undergo evaluation for seizure onset zone (SOZ) …

Deep learning in neuroimaging of epilepsy

KB García-Ramó, CA Sanchez-Catasus… - Clinical neurology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning (DL), has demonstrated
utility in diverse areas of medicine. DL uses neural networks to automatically learn features …

PET and SPECT imaging of the brain: a review on the current status of nuclear medicine in Japan

T Kaneta - Japanese Journal of Radiology, 2020 - Springer
Radiolabeled tracers allow visualization of not only perfusion, but receptors, function, and
metabolism as well. Although spatial resolution is lower than that of computed tomography …

[HTML][HTML] Presurgical evaluation of drug-resistant paediatric focal epilepsy with PISCOM compared to SISCOM and FDG-PET

J Aparicio, A Niñerola-Baizán, A Perissinotti, S Rubí… - Seizure, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Children with drug-resistant focal epilepsy have a compromised quality of life.
Epilepsy surgery can control or significantly reduce the seizures. We assessed and …

Image synthesis of interictal SPECT from MRI and PET using machine learning

AS Fard, DC Reutens, SC Ramsay… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Cross-modality image estimation can be performed using generative
adversarial networks (GANs). To date, SPECT image estimation from another medical …

The Legacy of the TTASAAN Report—premature conclusions and forgotten promises: A review of policy and practice part I

DG Pavel, TA Henderson, S DeBruin - Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Brain perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans were initially
developed in 1970's. A key radiopharmaceutical, hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime …

Multimodal Presurgical Evaluation of Medically Refractory Focal Epilepsy in Adults: An Update for Radiologists

CZ Cankurtaran, J Templer, SK Bandt… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
Please see the Editorial Comment by Patrick J. Peller discussing this article. Surgery is a
potentially curative treatment option for patients with medically refractory focal epilepsy …

Detection of epileptogenic focus with two new methods of processing of SPECT and PET cerebral images: PET-Analysis and PISCOM

N Sánchez-Izquierdo, A Perissinotti, A Donaire… - Revista Española de …, 2019 - Elsevier
Functional neuroimaging with positron emission tomography with 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose
(18 F-FDG PET) and perfusion single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) …