Microstructural Alterations in Language-Related White Matter Tracts in Post Basal Ganglia Stroke: A DSI study

Motivation: Post-stroke basal ganglia aphasia is common in clinical practice, and it is necessary to explain the causes of aphasia after basal ganglia infarction from imaging perspectives.Goal(s): To obtain white matter fiber bundles associated with the occurrence of basal ganglia aphasia. Approach: To apply DSI studio and use deterministic fiber-tracking algorithm to reconstruct language-related fiber bundles and measurequantitative anisotropy (QA) of each white matter tracts. Results: The damage to language related white matter fiber bundles such as corpus callosum fibers may be related to the occurrence of basal ganglia aphasia after stroke. Impact: By studying the integrity of white matter fiber bundles of basal ganglia aphasia after stroke, it provides an auxiliary role for clinical analysis of its pathogenesis.