White Matter Atrophy in Patients with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy : Voxel-Based Morphometry Analysis of T1- and T2-Weighted MR Images
Joint Authors
Cendes, Fernando
Yasuda, Clarissa L.
Braga, Barbara
Source
Radiology Research and Practice
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-10-24
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Introduction.
Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) associated with hippocampal sclerosis is highly refractory to clinical treatment.
MRI voxel-based morphometry (VBM) of T1-weighted images has revealed a widespread pattern of gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) atrophy in MTLE.
Few studies have investigated the role of T2-weighted images in revealing WM atrophy using VBM.
Objectives.
To compare the results of WM atrophy between T1- and T2-weighted images through VBM.
Methods.
We selected 28 patients with left and 27 with right MTLE and 60 normal controls.
We analyzed T1- and T2- weighted images with SPM8, using VBM/DARTEL algorithm to extract maps of GM and WM.
The second level of SPM was used to investigate areas of WM atrophy among groups.
Results.
Both acquisitions showed bilateral widespread WM atrophy.
T1-weighted images showed higher sensibility to detect areas of WM atrophy in both groups of MTLE.
T2-weighted images also showed areas of WM atrophy in a more restricted pattern, but still bilateral and with a large area of superposition with T1-weighted images.
Conclusions.
In MTLE, T1-weighted images are more sensitive to detect subtle WM abnormalities using VBM, compared to T2 images, although both present a good superposition of statistical maps.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Braga, Barbara& Yasuda, Clarissa L.& Cendes, Fernando. 2012. White Matter Atrophy in Patients with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy : Voxel-Based Morphometry Analysis of T1- and T2-Weighted MR Images. Radiology Research and Practice،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Braga, Barbara…[et al.]. White Matter Atrophy in Patients with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy : Voxel-Based Morphometry Analysis of T1- and T2-Weighted MR Images. Radiology Research and Practice No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-8.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Braga, Barbara& Yasuda, Clarissa L.& Cendes, Fernando. White Matter Atrophy in Patients with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy : Voxel-Based Morphometry Analysis of T1- and T2-Weighted MR Images. Radiology Research and Practice. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-474994
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-474994