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Application of MRI diffusion imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy
YANG Wenrui  CHEN Bing 

Cite this article as: YANG W R, CHEN B. Application of MRI diffusion imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2024, 15(1): 184-188. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2024.01.031.


[Abstract] Epilepsy is a chronic nervous system disease caused by the abnormal discharge of brain neurons, which seriously affects patients' physical and mental health and quality of life. Among which, the temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a common drug-resistant epilepsy in adults, so timely diagnosis and treatment is particularly important. diffusion MRI (dMRI) technology can use the diffusion information of water molecules to reflect the changes in the microstructure of TLE patients' brain tissu, dMRI mainly includes diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and various diffusion techniques derived from it, such as diffusion tensor imagin (DTI), diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI). In this review, we briefly summarized the clinical application progress of various dMRI technologies in TLE, and prospected its future research prospects, aiming to understand the application status of diffusion technology in TLE, and provide certain references for the study of TLE diagnosis, treatment and diffusion technology in related fields.
[Keywords] temporal lobe epilepsy；magnetic resonance imaging；diffusion magnetic resonance imaging；diffusion weighted imaging；diffusion tensor imaging；diffusion kurtosis image；diffusion spectrum imaging；neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging

YANG Wenrui   CHEN Bing*  

Department of Radiology, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan 750004, China

Corresponding author: CHEN B, E-mail: chenbing135501@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2023-09-01
Accepted  2023-12-07
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2024.01.031
Cite this article as: YANG W R, CHEN B. Application of MRI diffusion imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2024, 15(1): 184-188. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2024.01.031.

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