Advanced imaging and direct targeting of the motor thalamus and dentato-rubro-thalamic tract for tremor: a systematic review

N Gravbrot, M Saranathan, N Pouratian… - Stereotactic and …, 2020 - karger.com
Direct targeting methods for stereotactic neurosurgery in the treatment of essential tremor
have been the subject of active research over the past decade but have not yet been …

Multi-institutional evaluation of deep brain stimulation targeting using probabilistic connectivity-based thalamic segmentation

N Pouratian, Z Zheng, AA Bari, E Behnke… - Journal of …, 2011 - thejns.org
Object Due to the lack of internal anatomical detail with traditional MR imaging, preoperative
stereotactic planning for the treatment of tremor usually relies on indirect targeting based on …

Human brain atlasing: past, present and future

WL Nowinski - The neuroradiology journal, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We have recently witnessed an explosion of large-scale initiatives and projects addressing
mapping, modeling, simulation and atlasing of the human brain, including the BRAIN …

Human motor thalamus reconstructed in 3D from continuous sagittal sections with identified subcortical afferent territories

I Ilinsky, A Horn, P Paul-Gilloteaux, P Gressens… - eneuro, 2018 - eneuro.org
Classification and delineation of the motor-related nuclei in the human thalamus have been
the focus of numerous discussions for a long time. Difficulties in finding consensus have for …

[HTML][HTML] The potential value of probabilistic tractography-based for MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor

E Tsolaki, A Downes, W Speier, WJ Elias… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused UltraSound (MRgFUS) offers an incisionless
approach to treat essential tremor (ET). Due to lack of evident internal anatomy on traditional …

[HTML][HTML] Ventralis intermedius nucleus anatomical variability assessment by MRI structural connectivity

F Ferreira, H Akram, J Ashburner, L Zrinzo, H Zhang… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
The ventralis intermedius nucleus (Vim) is centrally placed in the dentato-thalamo-cortical
pathway (DTCp) and is a key surgical target in the treatment of severe medically refractory …

Stereotactic surgery of nucleus tegmenti pedunculopontini

P Mazzone, S Sposato, A Insola… - British Journal of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The nucleus tegmenti pedunculopontine (PPTg) is a new target for deep brain stimulation
(DBS) in Parkinson's disease (PD), in particular for ameliorating postural abnormalities and …

High thickness histological sections as alternative to study the three-dimensional microscopic human sub-cortical neuroanatomy

EJL Alho, ATDL Alho, L Grinberg, E Amaro… - Brain Structure and …, 2018 - Springer
Stereotaxy is based on the precise image-guided spatial localization of targets within the
human brain. Even with the recent advances in MRI technology, histological examination …

The human brain in 1700 pieces: design and development of a three-dimensional, interactive and reference atlas

WL Nowinski, BC Chua, GY Qian… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2012 - Elsevier
As the human brain is the most complex living organ, constructing its detailed model with
exploration capabilities in a form of an atlas is a challenge. Our overall goal is to construct …

Fully automated targeting using nonrigid image registration matches accuracy and exceeds precision of best manual approaches to subthalamic deep brain …

S Pallavaram, PF D'Haese, W Lake, PE Konrad… - …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Finding the optimal location for the implantation of the electrode in deep
brain stimulation (DBS) surgery is crucial for maximizing the therapeutic benefit to the …