Clinical Study

Ipsilesional High Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Add-On Therapy Improved Diffusion Parameters of Stroke Patients with Motor Dysfunction: A Preliminary DTI Study

Table 3

Brain regions with significant clusters and peak voxel coordinates showing FA difference between rTMS group and control group.

Brain regionMNI coordinates (, , ) valueVoxel number

RT > CT
 Supp_motor_area_L0, −1, 617.91294
 Precentral_L−44, −13, 603.6375
 Precentral_R36, −23, 583.5651
 Postcentral_L−48, −26, 542.7859
 Paracentral_lobule_L−2, −31, 604.13162
 Precuneus_L−2, −47, 603.9372
 Frontal_inf_tri_R49, 32, 74.1358
 Thalamus_L−23, −20, 62.6851
 Insula_R45, 6, 92.9646
 Frontal_sup_medial_R2, 59, 33.63286
 Temporal_mid_R65, −36, 33.5676
 Occipital_sup_R11, −96, 42.6142

RT < CT
 Frontal_mid_R29, 53, 3122
 Caudate_L−13, 17, 1058
 Frontal_sup_L−14, 67, 250
 Frontal_mid_L−30, 10, 5129

MNI: Montreal Neurological Institute; L: left; R: right; RT: repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; CT: conventional treatment.