Appearance of a neural bypass between injured cingulum and brainstem cholinergic nuclei of a patient with traumatic brain injury on follow-up diffusion tensor tractography images

摘要

The human brain is known to contain a maximum of eight cholinergic nuclei:the basal forebrain region:the medial septal nucleus(Ch 1),the vertical nucleus of the diagonal band(Ch 2),the horizontal limb of the diagonal band(Ch 3),and the nucleus basalis of Meynert(Ch4);the brainstem:the pedunculopontine nucleus(Ch 5),the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus(Ch 6),and the para-