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ArticleBrain structure & function2020

Probabilistic tractography in the ventrolateral thalamic nucleus: cerebellar and pallidal connections.

Esther A Pelzer, K Amande M Pauls, Nina Braun, Marc Tittgemeyer, Lars Timmermann

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Article in Brain structure & function, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Esther A PelzerDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany. esther.pelzer@sf.mpg.de.
K Amande M PaulsDepartment of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Nina BraunDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Marc TittgemeyerMax-Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Gleulerstr. 50, 50931, Cologne, Germany.
Lars TimmermannDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
University Hospital Cologne · DEMax Planck Institute for Metabolism Research · DEPhilipps University of Marburg · DEUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft KFO-219Universität zu Köln (DE) Köln Fortune Grant 185/2016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VL), as part of the 'motor thalamus', is main relay station of cerebellar and pallidal projections. It comprises anterior (VLa) and posterior (VLpd and VLpv) subnuclei. Though the fibre architecture of cerebellar and pallidal projections to of the VL nucleus has already been focus in a numerous amount of in vitro studies mainly in animals, probabilistic tractography now offers the possibility of an in vivo comparison in healthy humans. In this study we performed a (a) qualitative and (b) quantitative examination of VL-cerebellar and VL-pallidal pathways and compared the probability distributions between both projection fields in the VL after an (I) atlas-based and (II) manual-based segmentation procedure. Both procedures led to high congruent results of cerebellar and pallidal connectivity distributions: the maximum of pallidal projections was located in anterior and medial parts of the VL nucleus, whereas cerebellar connectivity was more located in lateral and posterior parts. The median connectivity for cerebellar connections in both approaches (manual and atlas-based segmentation) was VLa > VLpv > VLpd, whereas the pallidal median connectivity was VLa ~ VLpv > VLpd in the atlas-based approach and VLpv > VLa > VLpd in the manual approach.

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AdultBrain MappingCerebellumDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleGlobus PallidusHumansMaleNeural PathwaysVentral Thalamic NucleiYoung AdultBasal gangliaCerebellumProbabilistic tractographyQualitative and quantitative analysesVentrolateral thalamus

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