HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF NEUROIMAGING METHODS IN EPILEPTOLOGY
https://doi.org/10.35266/2949-3447-2024-1-2
Abstract
The article examines history of fundamental discoveries, methods and clinical achievements in neuroimaging, their contribution to the development of diagnosing, treatment and understanding of epilepsy etiology, also as part of International League Against Epilepsy’s research. In the early stages of its development, neuroimaging had advanced rapidly in the areas of cancer detection, pneumoencephalography, pneumomiography, ventriculography, linear tomography and selective angiography. The development of epileptology was greatly influenced by the use of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, which made it possible to identify pathological lesions in a large number of patients with cryptogenic epilepsy, expand the indications for surgical treatment and improve understanding of the pathogenesis of pathological processes in the brain associated with seizure activity. In recent years, functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography have become the focus of attention of researchers, which revealed a huge number of different structural changes of the brain tissue, which lie at the basis of the formation of the epileptic focus and lead to the development of focal epilepsy.
About the Authors
Aleksandr A. Melnikov
Petrovsky B. V. Russian Scientific Center for Surgery, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Sciences (Medicine), X-Ray Therapist, Radiologist
Natalya V. Klimova
Surgut State University, Surgut;
Surgut District Clinical Hospital, Surgut
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of Sciences (Medicine), Professor, Head of the Radiology Department
Kira V. Voronkova
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of Sciences (Medicine), Professor
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For citations:
Melnikov A.A., Klimova N.V., Voronkova K.V. HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF NEUROIMAGING METHODS IN EPILEPTOLOGY. Vestnik SurGU. Meditsina. 2024;17(1):21-25. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35266/2949-3447-2024-1-2
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