Table 2.

Epilepsy-specific MRI protocol for humans This “essential” 6 sequence protocol allows the detection of virtually all common epileptogenic lesion in humans and was proposed after systemic analysis of 2740 patients in a epilepsy pre-surgery program [13, 38, 41]

Human epilepsy-specific MRI protocol
Slice thickness 3 mm or less
➢ T2W - 2 sequence orientations for hippocampal angulation
● Perpendicular to the long axis of the hippocampus
● Along the long axis of the hippocampus
➢ FLAIR - 2 sequence orientations for hippocampal angulation
● Perpendicular to the long axis of the hippocampus
● Along the long axis of the hippocampus
➢ T1W
● 3D volume with 1 mm isotropic voxel size
➢ Hemosiderin/calcification sensitive sequences e.g. gradient echo