Associations between Age-Related Changes in the Core Vestibular Projection Pathway and Balance Ability: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

Table 2

Comparison of DTI parameters in lateral VST and medial VST and PIVC between young and old healthy adults.

	Lateral VST			Medial VST			PIVC
	FA	MD	Tract volume	FA	MD	Tract volume	FA	MD	Tract volume
Old	0.35 (0.05)	1.27 (0.26)	334.27 (135.47)	0.44 (0.05)	0.92 (0.12)	255.09 (118.89)	0.40 (0.05)	0.85 (0.06)	1862.86 (1971.90)
Young	0.38 (0.04)	1.22 (0.17)	454.833 (142.54)	0.41 (0.05)	1.03 (0.12)	402.96 (123.09)	0.40 (0.03)	0.84 (0.03)	2816.00 (1752.75)
	0.044	0.476	0.005	0.098	0.001	0.000	0.459	0.397	0.020

Values represent mean (±standard deviation). DTI: diffusion tensor imaging; VST: vestibulospinal tract; PIVC: parietoinsular vestibular cortex; FA: fractional anisotropy; MD: mean diffusivity. .