title: Imaging white matter tracts and nuclei of the hypothalamus: an MR-anatomic comparative study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the MR appearance of the hypothalamus and its associated white matter tracts.
  
  
  METHODS
  Coronal and sagittal spin-echo images were obtained in cadaver brains. Gross and histologic sections were made of the cadaver brains. The size, shape, signal intensity, course, and pattern of structures in the hypothalamic region were identified in MR images by comparison with the anatomic sections.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mamillary bodies, paraventricular zone of hypothalamic nuclei, postcommissural fornix, mammillothalamic fasciculus, and anterior commissure were identified on the MR images.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggests that, with MR imaging of sufficiently high resolution, some of the tracts and nuclei in the hypothalamus may be identified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Mark
authors.forename: F Z
authors.initials: FZ
authors.lastname: Yetkin
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Haughton
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Estkowski
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging