PET/MRI improves presurgical lesion detection in pediatric epilepsy

In children with difficult-to-diagnose epilepsy, PET/MRI tin pinpoint areas of the encephalon liable for seizures, adjacent erstwhile MRI scans are antagonistic oregon inconclusive. A caller survey of a ample pediatric cohort, including children younger than 6, recovered that combining PET/MRI findings with EEG results and a structured presurgical valuation improved the recognition of seizure-causing encephalon insubstantial and informed attraction decisions. This probe was published successful the August contented of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.