TABLE 3.

Summary of significant increases (↑) and decreases (↓) found as a result of the fixed effects of the fitted model, both before and after surgery.

	Patients vs. controls (at baseline)	Pre-surgical contralateral vs. Post-surgical contralateral hemisphere (patients)
DTI
MD	↑	–
AD	↑	↓
RD	↑	↑
FA	–	↓
SMT
μMD	↑	–
Long	↑	↓
Trans	↑	↑
μFA	↓	↓
ODEntropy	–	↓

Trend of non-significant changes (–) can be further investigated in Table 2. DTI, diffusion tensor imaging metrics; FA, fractional anisotropy; MD, mean diffusivity; AD, axial diffusivity; RD, radial diffusivity; SMT metrics, spherical mean technique; Long, parallel microscopic diffusivity; Trans, perpendicular microscopic diffusivity; μFA, microscopic fractional anisotropy; μMD, Microscopic mean diffusivity.