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• Clinical Article •
Correlation of corticospinal tract injury and the outcome of motor function after six months of intracerebral hemorrhage: quantitative evaluation with diffusion tensor tractography
LI Jing  LI Cheng  WANG Wei 

DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2010.01.006.


[Abstract] Objective: To investigate the predicting value by analyzing corticospinal tract (CST) injury to the motor function after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) with quantitative diffusion tensor tractography (DTT).Materials and Methods: Diffusion tensor imaging was performed in twenty-five acute ICH patients, whose hemorrhage involves basal ganglia, internal capsule or corona radiate. The affected side of CST was reconstructed with Volume-One 1.64 and diffusion Tensor Visualizer II(dTV II) software from Tokyo University. The relative remaining number of CST, which is as quantitative indicator, was calculated. Fugl-Meyer scoring was used to evaluate the prognosis.Results: The correlation coefficient (r value) between relative remaining number of CST and Fugl-Meyer score after six month of ICH is 0.879 (P<0.01).Conclusion: Quantitative DTT of CST could be used to predict the motor function in ICH patients.
[Keywords] Diffusion tensor tractography；Magnetic resonance imaging；Motor cortex；Cerebral hemorrhage

LI Jing Department of Radiology, the First Medicine College, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210046, China

LI Cheng* Department of Imaging, the First People’s Hospital of Yangzhou, Yangzhou 225001, China

WANG Wei Department of Imaging, the First People’s Hospital of Yangzhou, Yangzhou 225001, China

*Correspondence to: Li C, E-mail: cjr.licheng@vip.163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2009-12-23
Accepted  2010-01-15
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2010.01.006
DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2010.01.006.

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