Clinical Utility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Fibre Tractography for Evaluating Diffuse Axonal Injury with Hemiparesis

Table 1

Comparison between healthy controls and a patient with DAI and laterality of the mean FA values.

Region of interest	Healthy controls	Patient with DAI	P value*
CP
R	0.51±0.13	0.40±0.13	<0.001
L	0.49±0.14	0.49±0.16	NS
P value**	NS	0.001
PL
R	0.59±0.10	0.50±0.13	<0.001
L	0.58±0.10	0.56±0.13	NS
P value**	NS	0.015
CR
R	0.60±0.08	0.52±0.09	<0.001
L	0.59±0.06	0.60±0.09	NS
P value**	NS	<0.001

CP: cerebral peduncle; PL: posterior limb of the internal capsule; CR: corona radiata; R: right; L: left; NS: not significant.
∗Comparison of healthy controls and patient with DAI by the independent 𝑡-test.
∗∗Comparison of right and left by the paired 𝑡-test.