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Anatomical location of the medial lemniscus and spinothalamic tract at the pons in the human brain: a diffusion
1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University , Namku, Taegu , Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Using diffusion tensor tractography, we investigated the anatomical location of medial lemniscus (ML) and spinothalamic tract (STT) at pons. We recruited 47 healthy volunteers. Evaluation of the anatomical location of ML and STT was performed using the highest probabilistic location at the upper, middle, and lower pons. According to findings, MLs were located around the middle to medial one-third, between midline and lateral boundary of pons in the pontine tegmentum and STTs were located posterolaterally to ML.
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