Role of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Diagnosis of Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Heba Ali¹, Mona Mohamed², Yosra Abdullah, Ahmed Gaber, Yasser Abbas

Modern MR techniques are helpful in assessment of patients presenting with seizures and EEG changes suggestive of temporal lobe epilepsy, yet having normal conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) epilepsy protocol. Here, we performed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), with quantitative assessment of fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) combined with tractography for pertinent white matter tracts. Results revealed that DTI is helpful for more accurate assessment of patients with MTLE.