NEW TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING OF EPILEPSY

Within the last several years a number of technical developments have been made in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that can potentially imp act clinical and research MR imaging applications in epilepsy, These i nclude developments in instrumentation and in pulse sequences, Advance s in instrumentation include higher capacity gradient systems and mult iple receiver coils as directed to brain imaging, Advances in pulse se quence include use of fast or turbo-spin-echo techniques, variants of echo-planar imaging, and sequences such as fluid-attenuation inversion recovery (FLAIR) targeted to specific applications of brain imaging. The purpose of this paper is to review several of these developments.