Table 3. Correlations between post-mortem measures of nigrostriatal damage and in vivo MRI measurements at wk 5.

	Histology
MRI	TH+ cells SNc	TH+ fibres STR
VM volume	.839 **	.884 **
STR volume	.749 **	.835 **
CTX volume	.840 **	.882 **
LV volume	−.676 *	−.771 **
M1 thickness	.751 **	.841 **
S1BF thickness	.494	.574
SN T2 SI	.576	.602

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level,

**correlation is significant at the 0.01 level. (Abbreviations: VM, ventral midbrain; STR, corpus striatum; CTX, cortex; LV, lateral ventricle; M1, primary motor cortex, S1BF, primary somatosensory cortex barrel field; SN, substantia nigra; SI, signal intensity).