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Area of Science:

  • Neuroimaging
  • Epilepsy Surgery
  • Nuclear Medicine

Background:

  • Focal epilepsy patients with normal MRI present diagnostic challenges.
  • Accurate localization of seizure onset is crucial for successful epilepsy surgery.
  • Interictal and ictal SPECT imaging are used to identify hyperperfusion in epileptic foci.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the efficacy of statistical SPECT processing (ISAS, STATISCOM) against traditional subtraction methods (SISCOM).
  • To evaluate these methods in patients with MRI-negative temporal lobe epilepsy (nTLE) and extratemporal lobe epilepsy (nETLE).
  • To assess the correlation between hyperperfusion localization and surgical outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of 49 drug-resistant focal epilepsy cases with negative preoperative MRI.
  • Interictal and ictal SPECT scans analyzed using SISCOM, ISAS, and STATISCOM.
  • Blinded reviewers localized seizure origins, and results were compared to surgical resection sites.

Main Results:

  • STATISCOM (71% nTLE, 57% nETLE) and ISAS (67% nTLE, 53% nTLE) demonstrated better colocalization of hyperperfusion with resection sites than SISCOM (38% nTLE, 36% nETLE).
  • In nTLE, hyperperfusion localization by STATISCOM and ISAS correlated with excellent surgical outcomes (p < 0.05).
  • No significant association between hyperperfusion localization and outcomes was found for SISCOM or in nETLE.

Conclusions:

  • Statistical SPECT processing methods (ISAS, STATISCOM) offer superior localization of hyperperfusion to surgical sites in MRI-negative focal epilepsy compared to SISCOM.
  • These advanced methods show higher interobserver agreement and are associated with better surgical outcomes in nTLE.
  • Extratemporal lobe epilepsy (nETLE) remains a challenge for SPECT-based localization, irrespective of the processing method used.