A SPECT scan uses radioactive material to find where the seizure started in your brain. This scan may be done if other scans do not show where the seizure started.How is a temporal lobe seizure treated?The goal of treatment is to try to stop your seizures completely. You may need any ...
A SPECT scan uses radioactive material to find where the seizure started in your child's brain. This scan may be done if other scans do not show where the seizure started.How is a temporal lobe seizure treated?The goal of treatment is to try to stop your child's seizures completely. Yo...
PURPOSE To compare a new SPECT system with a scanning geometry specialized for the head with a conventional SPECT system under similar clinical scanning conditions. METHOD AND MATERIALS A dediacated head SPECT scanner (Neurologica inSPira HD) consisting of 72 detectors with focused cone collimators ...
How accurate is a PET scan for Alzheimer’s disease? Concerns about our memory and thinking abilities are not unusual as we grow older. However, sometimes behaviors and abilities can change in more dramatic ways Read Article What does a thyroid ultrasound screening show my healthcare provider...
We noticed our son had a reaction to red dye when we adopted him at 5. We saw aggressive, hostile and self harming behavior – which he did because he thought his brain was on fire. (He used to bang his head hard to get the pain to stop. His SPECT scan results showed that his ...
Coronary heart disease is a chronic (long-term, ongoing), relentlessly progressive disease. Reducing risk factors may only slow its pace. Even angioplasty or bypass surgery only reduces the severity of the symptoms. It does not cure the disease. It often comes back and gets worse, requiring ...
As with PET, SPECT is a non-invasive molecular imaging method that generates tomographic images of functional and metabolic pathways in the body. Unlike in PET, SPECT is based on the use of radiotracers that are labelled with radioisotopes that decay via the emission of single or multiple photon...
SPECT imaging and instrumentation trends As with PET, SPECT is a non-invasive molecular imaging method that generates tomographic images of functional and metabolic pathways in the body. Unlike in PET, SPECT is based on the use of radiotracers that are labelled with radioisotopes that decay via th...
Single-photon emission computerized tomography scan (SPECT Scan)is used if the MRI and the EEG didn’t show the brain location where the seizures are originating. Like the PET Scan, it injects radioactive material into a vein to create a 3D map of the activity of theblood flowduring seizur...
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has proven to be a useful tool for characterising tumours and defin- ing white matter anatomy, as DTI can non-invasively trace neuronal tracts in the brain and spine. Not only does DTI enable visualisation of important white matter tracts in the brain, but it ...