Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 5 , Pages 357-381 , September 2007

Nuclear Medicine in Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery: Epilepsy and Brain Tumors

  • Shekhar Patil, MD

      Affiliations

    • Fellow in Paediatric Neurosciences, UCL–Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy, London, United Kingdom.
  • ,
  • Lorenzo Biassoni, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Lorenzo Biassoni, MD, Department of Radiology, Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, University College London, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom.
  • ,
  • Lise Borgwardt, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department for Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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