# Nuclide record epilepsy-localisation (indication). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/indications/epilepsy-localisation/>
  a schema:MedicalCondition ;
  nuclide:kind "indication" ;
  schema:identifier "epilepsy-localisation" ;
  schema:name "Presurgical localisation of drug-resistant focal epilepsy"@en ;
  schema:description "For seizures that medication cannot control, a brain PET scan taken between seizures can spot the small area of brain that is misfiring, by showing it using less sugar than the tissue around it, helping surgeons plan an operation to remove it."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/indications/epilepsy-localisation/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2024/10/17/jnumed.124.268754>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11139752/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12593530/> ;
  nuclide:tag "neurology", "PET", "epilepsy", "presurgical" ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/fdg-pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet-mri/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect/> ;
  nuclide:drugs <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/fludeoxyglucose-f18/> .