Abstract
In childhood drug-resistant focal epilepsy, the identification of a magnetic resonance imaging lesion significantly affects the management and prognosis, although it is often challenging. Herein we report the preliminary results of a modified MR sequence, in which both magnetization transfer and chemical shift selective preparation pulses are added to a 3D fast spin echo T1-weighted sequence to recognize focal cortical dysplasia. The scan time is short, and the images have expected uniform suppression of the background normal gray and white matter. We report four children with focal epilepsy, in whom the focal cortical and subcortical lesions are superiorly conspicuous on the aforementioned MR sequence compared to the high-resolution fluid-attenuated inversion recovery images obtained with typical epilepsy MR protocols.
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