Glucose Metabolic Profile by Visual Assessment Combined with Statistical Parametric Mapping Analysis in Pediatric Patients with Epilepsy

Yuankai Zhu, Jianhua Feng, Shuang Wu, Haifeng Hou, Jianfeng Ji, Kai Zhang, Qing Chen, Lin Chen, Haiying Cheng, Liuyan Gao,

Journal of Nuclear Medicine · 2017 · 44 citations · 30 references

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F-FDG PET imaging with visual assessment combined with SPM analysis could provide cerebral glucose metabolic profiles in nonsurgical epilepsy patients. |AI| might be used for evaluation of clinical severity and progress in these patients. Patients with a prolonged period of seizure freedom may have more subtle (or no) metabolic abnormalities on PET. The clinical value of PET might be enhanced by timing the scan closer to clinical seizures.

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