Well... I guess you're not talking about CT scan but about EEG results, and

it's this :)

http://www.google.it/search?num=30&hl=it&safe=off&q=epilepti...


Also, to ease comprhension...
check this
"Nellacrisi convulsiva l’inizio è costituito da un’attività rapida reclutante (fase tonica) seguita dall’attività di punta-onda generalizzata corrispondente alla fase clonica"
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:IyvQJM05M9QJ:syllabus.n...

and this
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:3Vz78AnrfUgJ:www.clubdi...


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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-06-12 12:20:35 GMT)
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And also
http://books.google.it/books?id=YoD2Uu7oP_UC&pg=PA839&lpg=PA...

In few words... during the tonic phase the electrical activity increases as more and more similar adiacent brain areas become activated. And since the electrical activity of all the involved areas follows a rithmic pattern - that increases as the number of arease increases - it is called 'recruiting rythm'

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I would also like to add that this 'andamento reclutante' it's a very very specific expression for the EEG results produced by epileptic brain anomalies (or other anomalies alike). And its right specific translation is just 'recruiting rythm'.


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Note added at 6 hrs (2008-06-12 16:42:50 GMT)
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For Ellen:

from the Hazon Dictionary

Reclutare:

Traduzione v.tr.
1 (mil.) to recruit, to enlist
2 (estens.) (ingaggiare) to recruit, to hire, to engage; to take*on: - personale ben qualificato, to recruit well-qualified staff; - manodopera stagionale, to hire seasonal labour; la squadra ha reclutato un calciatore straniero, the (football) team has taken on a foreign player / il nuovo partito potrebbe - molti giovani, the new party could appeal to many young people


Moreover, the verb 'to recruit/reclutare' has a very specific meaning in neurobiology since it refers to the processes in which more and more neurons become active at the some time

http://www.google.it/search?num=30&hl=it&safe=off&q="recruit...

:)