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Comparison of rCBF between Patients with Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Normal Controls using ${H_2}^{15}O\;PET$  

Kang, Eun-Joo (College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicines, Seoul National University)
Lee, Jae-Sung (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Nam, Hyun-Woo (Department of Neurology Medicine, Seoul National University)
Lee, Sang-Kun (Department of Neurology Medicine, Seoul National University)
Lee, Dong-Soo (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Chung, June-Key (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Lee, Myung-Chul (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
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The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine / v.36, no.3, 2002 , pp. 155-165 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the brain areas whose regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was changed in medial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) using ${H_2}^{15}O-PET$. Materials and Methods: 12 patients with mTLE (6 left, 6 right mTLE) and 6 normal controls were scanned during a fixation baseline period and a sensory-motor condition where subjects pressed a button to an upward arrow. A voxel-based analysis using SPM99 software was peformed to compare the patient groups with the normal controls for the rCBF during fixation baseline period and for relative changes of rCBF during the sensory-motor task relative to fixation. Results: During the fixation baseline, a significant reduction of rCBF was found posterior insula bilaterally and right frontopolar regions in right mTLE patients compared to the normal controls. In left mTLE patients, the reduction was found in left frontopolar and temporal legions. During the sensory-motor task, rCBF increase over the fixation period, was reduced in left frontal and superior temporal legions in the right mTLE patients whereas in various areas of right hemisphere in left mTLE patients, relative to normal controls. However, the increased rCBF was also found in the left inferior parietal and anterior thalamic/fornix regions in both right and left mTLE patients compared to normal controls. Conclusion: Epilepsy induced changes were found not only in relative increase/decrease of rCBF during a simple sensory-motor control condition relative to a fixation rest condition but also in the relative rCBF distribution during the rest period.
Keywords
Medial temporal lobe epilepsy; $Brain\; {H_2}\; ^{15}O-PET$; Sensory-motor task;
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