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. 2016 Nov 30;6:38058. doi: 10.1038/srep38058

Table 2. Offsets between the planned and actual target and entry points of the electrode trajectories determined from (a) segmentation of its trace in post-operative MRI, (b) a 3D reconstruction of the trajectory, (c) histology.

  T/Emri – T/Eplan mean ± s.d. (in mm)
AP ML DV ED
(a) MRI
Target (T) −0.50 ± 0.56** 0.21 ± 0.47* −0.78 ± 0.61*** 1.24 ± 0.50
Entry (E) −0.67 ± 0.38*** 0.13 ± 0.61* −0.27 ± 0.16*** 0.92 ± 0.47
  βmri – βplan° αmri – αplan° βmri – βplan°(max) αmri – αplan°(max)
Angle 1.80 ± 3.94°* 1.76 ± 4.35° 12.20° 14.43°
(b) Reconstructed
  T/Erec-mri – T/Eplan mean ± s.d. (in mm)
  AP ML DV ED
Target (T) −0.52 ± 0.51*** 0.28 ± 0.42* 0.0 ± 0.0 0.76 ± 0.44
Entry (E) −0.69 ± 0.38*** 0.14 ± 0.61* 0.0 ± 0.0 0.87 ± 0.49
  βrec-mri – βplan° αrec-mri – αplan° βrec-mri–βplan°(max) αrec-mri–αplan°(max)
Angle 1.77 ± 3.69°* 1.25 ± 3.95° 9.49° 13.21°
(c) Histology
  Thist – Tplan mean ± s.d. (in mm)
  AP ML DV ED
Target (T) −0.42 ± 0.30*** -0.12 ± 0.39 −0.36 ± 0.72 0.92 ± 0.44
Offset at target (T) – p value
  ΔTmri vs. ΔTrec-mri ΔTmri vs. ΔThist ΔTrec vs. ΔThist  
AP 0.93 0.63 0.53  
ML 0.66 0.04 0.01  
DV 0.00 0.08 0.05  

See the text for methodological details. T target; E entry. AP anterior-posterior, ML medial-lateral, DV dorsal-ventral, ED Euclidean distance. ***p < 0.001; **p < 0.005; *p < 0.05.