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Background And Objectives: Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) has been increasingly performed in recent years as a minimally invasive treatment of essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson disease. One of the side effects after treatment is dysgeusia. Some centers use tractography to facilitate the treatment planning. However, there have been no reports of identifying gustatory tracts so far. Our aim was to investigate the technical feasibility of isolating and visualizing the gustatory tracts, as well as to explore the relationship between the gustatory tract and the MRgFUS lesion using actual patient data.
Methods: We used 20 randomly selected individuals from the Human Connectome Project database to perform tractography of the gustatory tracts. We defined region of interest as the dorsal region of the brainstem, Brodmann area 43 associated with taste perception, and a sphere with a 3-mm radius centered around the ventral intermediate nucleus in the anterior commissure-posterior commissure plane. We also examined the position of the gustatory tract in relation with other tracts, including the medial lemniscus, the pyramidal tract, and the dentatorubrothalamic tract. In addition, using the data of real patients with essential tremor, we investigated the distance between MRgFUS lesions and the gustatory tract and its association with the development of dysgeusia.
Results: We delineated a mean of 15 streamlines of the gustatory tracts per subject in each hemisphere. There was no statistical difference in the localization of the gustatory tracts between the left and right cerebral hemispheres. The gustatory tract was located anteromedial to the medial lemniscus and posteromedial to the dentatorubrothalamic tract in the anterior commissure-posterior commissure plane. The distance from the MRgFUS lesion to the gustatory tract was significantly shorter in the case where dysgeusia occurred compared with nondysgeusia cases ( P -value: .0068).
Conclusion: The thalamic gustatory tracts can be reliably visualized using tractography.
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