Many authors suggest the determination of the temporal lobe volume to recognize its eventual atrophy, as an useful parameter for a surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. In our work, we propose for the first time the shape analysis of the temporal lobes on MR images by analytic morphometric methods. Our goal is checking possible morphologic differences between the two lobes, right and left, both in normal subjects and in patients affected by focal temporal pathology, to search correlations between morphology and pathology. Significant results allow us to present analytic morphometry as a further parameter to study the temporal lobe, especially in patients suffering for partial epilepsy candidate to surgical treatment.

Morphometric evaluation of temporal lobes MR images obtained in normal and epileptic patients

DICUONZO, Franca;
1993-01-01

Abstract

Many authors suggest the determination of the temporal lobe volume to recognize its eventual atrophy, as an useful parameter for a surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. In our work, we propose for the first time the shape analysis of the temporal lobes on MR images by analytic morphometric methods. Our goal is checking possible morphologic differences between the two lobes, right and left, both in normal subjects and in patients affected by focal temporal pathology, to search correlations between morphology and pathology. Significant results allow us to present analytic morphometry as a further parameter to study the temporal lobe, especially in patients suffering for partial epilepsy candidate to surgical treatment.
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