Changing concepts in presurgical assessment for epilepsy surgery

M Zijlmans, W Zweiphenning, N Van Klink - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Candidates for epilepsy surgery must undergo presurgical evaluation to establish whether
and how surgical treatment can stop seizures without causing neurological deficits. Various …

Imaging in the surgical treatment of epilepsy

JS Duncan - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2010 - nature.com
Medically refractory focal epilepsy is potentially curable by surgery. This Review considers
the application of recent advances in structural and functional brain imaging to increase the …

Magnetoencephalography for epileptic focus localization in a series of 1000 cases

S Rampp, H Stefan, X Wu, M Kaltenhäuser, B Maess… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The aim of epilepsy surgery in patients with focal, pharmacoresistant epilepsies is to remove
the complete epileptogenic zone to achieve long-term seizure freedom. In addition to a …

Interictal and ictal source localization for epilepsy surgery using high-density EEG with MEG: a prospective long-term study

C Plummer, SJ Vogrin, WP Woods, MA Murphy… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Drug-resistant focal epilepsy is a major clinical problem and surgery is under-used. Better
non-invasive techniques for epileptogenic zone localization are needed when MRI shows …

Sensitivity of MEG and EEG to source orientation

SP Ahlfors, J Han, JW Belliveau, MS Hämäläinen - Brain topography, 2010 - Springer
An important difference between magnetoencephalography (MEG) and
electroencephalography (EEG) is that MEG is insensitive to radially oriented sources. We …

A comprehensive study on electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography sensitivity to cortical and subcortical sources

MC Piastra, A Nüßing, J Vorwerk, M Clerc… - Human Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) maps are a good way to visualize electroencephalography
(EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) sensitivity. SNR maps extend the knowledge …

Morphometric MRI analysis improves detection of focal cortical dysplasia type II

J Wagner, B Weber, H Urbach, CE Elger, HJ Huppertz - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Focal cortical dysplasias type II (FCD II) are highly epileptogenic lesions frequently causing
pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Detection of these lesions on MRI is still challenging as FCDs …

Map** the signal‐to‐noise‐ratios of cortical sources in magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography

DM Goldenholz, SP Ahlfors… - Human brain …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Although magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) have been
available for decades, their relative merits are still debated. We examined regional …

A distributed spatio-temporal EEG/MEG inverse solver

W Ou, MS Hämäläinen, P Golland - NeuroImage, 2009 - Elsevier
We propose a novel ℓ1ℓ2-norm inverse solver for estimating the sources of EEG/MEG
signals. Based on the standard ℓ1-norm inverse solvers, this sparse distributed inverse …

Complexity of functional connectivity networks in mild cognitive impairment subjects during a working memory task

M Ahmadlou, A Adeli, R Bajo, H Adeli - Clinical Neurophysiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Objectives The objective is to study the changes of brain activity in patients with mild
cognitive impairment (MCI). Using magneto-encephalogram (MEG) signals, the authors …