S1-4. PET imaging of epilepsy

If we can visualize the epileptogenic lesion, the intractable epilepsy might be cured by the resective surgery. PET is a common clinical imaging tool, and it can evaluate and visualize brain function quantitatively and multidimensionally with various radio ligands. (18) FDG-PET and (11) C-flumazenil-PET are mainly used in the clinical settings, and they showed the decrease of glucose metabolism and binding in the epilepsy focus. In this decade, many PET radio-ligands are developed for positive imaging of epileptogenic lesion.
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Source Type: research