Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center

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Aimee F. Luat, M.D.

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aluat@pet.wayne.edu

    Dr. Luat studied medicine at the University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Manila, Philippines where she graduated cum laude in 1994. She completed her pediatric neurology fellowship training in the Philippines. In 2003, Dr. Luat came to the US to undergo her two year Clinical Neurophysiology/Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship training at Children’s Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University. Currently, Dr. Luat is undergoing clinical and research training in Pediatric Neurology under the Basic Neuroscience Research Pathway at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Her research interest is in the area of epilepsy and tuberous sclerosis complex.

Publications:
1. Luat AF, Makki M, Chugani HT. Neuroimaging in tuberous sclerosis complex. Curr Opin Neurol. 2007; 20: 142 – 50. Review.
2. Luat AF, Bernardi B, Chugani HT. Congenital Perisylvian Syndrome: MRI and glucose PET correlations. Pediatr Neurol. 2006; 35: 21 – 9.
3. Luat AF, Chugani HT, Asano E, Juhasz C, Trock G, Rothermel R. Episodic receptive aphasia in a child with Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: PET correlates. Brain Dev. 2006; 28: 592 – 6.
4. Luat AF, Asano E, Juhasz C, Chandana SR, Shah A, Sood S, Chugani HT. Relationship between brain glucose metabolism positron emission tomography (PET) and electroencephalography (EEG) in children with continuous spike-and-wave activity during slow-wave sleep. J Child Neurol. 2005; 20: 682 – 90.
5. Asano E, Pawlak C, Shah A, Shah J, Luat AF, Ahn-Ewing J, Chugani HT. The diagnostic value of initial video-EEG monitoring in children – review of 1000 cases. Epilepsy Res. 2005; 66: 129 – 35. Review.

Abstracts:
1. Luat AF, Asano E, Sood S, Chugani HT. Epilepsy surgery in children with dysgenesis of the corpus callosum. Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Washington, DC, December 2005.
2. Luat, AF, Juhasz C, Asano E, Huq M, Chugani HT. Childhood epilepsy associated with SCN1A gene mutation: clinical, EEG and FDG PET correlations. To be presented in the 36th Annual Meeting of the Child Neurology Society, Quebec City, October 2007.

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