Table 1:

Overview of LGN volumes from published studies

Modality	Authors	No.	Cases	Morphometric Measurements (volume or height)
Histology study	Putnam, 19269	3	Healthy subjects	Ranging from 91.9 to 157 mm3
	Zvorykin, 198011	17	Healthy subjects	Ranging from 66 to 152 mm3
	Selemon and Begovic, 20075	30	Healthy subjects	Average volume: 79.67 mm3
	Dorph-Petersen et al, 20056	30	Healthy subjects (only left LGN)	Average volume: 104 mm3
fMRI study	Chen et al, 199931	8	Healthy subjects	Activation area: 4.6 × 4.6 mm2
	Kastner et al, 200420	6	Healthy subjects	Left/right: 234 ± 29 mm3/244 ± 28 mm3
	Korsholm et al, 200721	19	Patients with isolated optic neuritis	Average of bilateral LGN: 267 ± 27 mm3
	Hess et al, 20097	6	Patients with amblyopia	Left/right: 409 ± 306 mm3/439 ± 310 mm3
Proton density MRI study	Gupta et al, 20098	18	8 Healthy subjects	Height: left/right 4.83 ± 0.95 mm/4.74 ± 0.54 mm