PET Studies of Infantile Spasms

Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to determine local cerebral metabolic rates for glucose in 44 infants with spasms at the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Biophysics and the Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, CA.

Keywords

• positron emission tomography
• infantile spasms
• epileptic syndromes