Validation of diffusion tensor imaging tractography to visualize the dentatorubrothalamic tract for surgical planning.

Nowacki, Andreas; Schlaier, Jürgen; Debove, Ines; Pollo, Claudio

Nowacki, Andreas; Schlaier, Jürgen; Debove, Ines; Pollo, Claudio.

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Nowacki A; Departments of1Neurosurgery and.
Schlaier J; 2Department of Neurosurgery, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.
Debove I; 3Neurology, University Hospital Inselspital Bern, University of Bern, Switzerland; and.
Pollo C; Departments of1Neurosurgery and.

J Neurosurg ; 130(1): 99-108, 2018 03 23.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29570012

Subject(s)

Cerebellar Nuclei/diagnostic imaging; Diffusion Tensor Imaging/methods; Essential Tremor/diagnostic imaging; Thalamus/diagnostic imaging; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Essential Tremor/surgery; Female; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Male; Middle Aged; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies

Key words

AC = anterior commissure; AP = anteroposterior; DBS = deep brain stimulation; DRTT = dentatorubrothalamic tract; DTI = diffusion tensor imaging; DTI fiber tracking; ET = essential tremor; FA = fractional anisotropy; LAT = lateral; ML = medial lemniscus; PC = posterior commissure; PSA = posterior subthalamic area; PT = pyramidal tract; RN = red nucleus; ROI = region of interest; STN = subthalamic nucleus; TRS = Fahn-Tolosa-Marin tremor rating scale; VERT = vertical; VLp = ventrolateral posterior part of the thalamus; Vim = ventral intermediate nucleus; deep brain stimulation; dentatorubrothalamic tract; fct = fasciculus cerebellothalamicus; functional neurosurgery; ml = medial lemniscus; per the Morel atlas; surgical planning

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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Thalamus / Cerebellar Nuclei / Essential Tremor / Diffusion Tensor Imaging Type of study: Observational_studies Language: En Journal: J Neurosurg Year: 2018 Type: Article

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