Table 2 List of average absolute left and right hemispheric hypothalamic volumes.
From: A high-resolution in vivo magnetic resonance imaging atlas of the human hypothalamic region
Name | Abbreviation | Mean volume [mm3] | ||||||
Overall | SD | Left | SD | Right | SD | |||
Gray matter | Anterior hypothalamic area | AHA | 31.2 | 4.56 | 32.71 | 4.81 | 29.68 | 4.45 |
Arcuate nucleus | AN | 27.34 | 4.07 | 28.12 | 4.15 | 26.54 | 4.1 | |
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis | BNST | 112.86 | 15.63 | 117.64 | 16.4 | 108.07 | 15.392 | |
Dorsal periventricular nucleus | DP | 2.87 | 0.53 | 2.59 | 0.48 | 3.14 | 0.58 | |
Dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus | DM | 11.84 | 1.63 | 10.32 | 1.44 | 13.35 | 1.88 | |
Lateral hypothalamus | LH | 171.53 | 22.29 | 184.66 | 24.085 | 158.39 | 20.93 | |
Mammillary bodies | MM | 73.06 | 11.46 | 69.78 | 10.94 | 76.33 | 12.17 | |
Medial preoptic nucleus | MPO | 8.84 | 1.29 | 9.31 | 1.36 | 8.36 | 1.24 | |
Nucleus basalis of Meynert | NBM | 50.81 | 8.18 | 47.81 | 7.87 | 53.79 | 8.77 | |
Paraventricular nucleus | PA | 39.53 | 5.7 | 43.81 | 6.26 | 35.24 | 5.22 | |
Periventricular nucleus | PE | 19.52 | 2.96 | 19.83 | 2.99 | 19.2 | 3 | |
Posterior hypothalamus | PH | 25.93 | 3.35 | 24.41 | 3.21 | 27.43 | 3.61 | |
Red nucleus | RN | 226.88 | 33.68 | 222.66 | 33.46 | 231.08 | 34.67 | |
Substantia nigra | SN | 682.29 | 91.86 | 716.69 | 96.71 | 647.89 | 88.37 | |
Subthalamic nucleus | STN | 98.93 | 14.67 | 94.08 | 14.19 | 103.76 | 15.5 | |
Suprachiasmatic nucleus | SCh | 4.94 | 0.86 | 5.13 | 0.93 | 4.74 | 0.88 | |
Supraoptic nucleus | SO | 16.46 | 2.37 | 15.79 | 2.41 | 17.13 | 2.53 | |
Tuberomammillary nucleus | TM | 24.76 | 3.56 | 24.34 | 3.51 | 25.18 | 3.72 | |
Ventromedial hypothalamus | VM | 31.7 | 4.64 | 28.45 | 4.2 | 34.95 | 5.24 | |
Zona incerta | ZI | 74.14 | 11.11 | 70.06 | 10.8 | 78.22 | 11.72 | |
White matter | Anterior commissure | ac | incomplete segmentation | |||||
Diagonal band of broca | dB | 33.42 | 4.59 | 39.69 | 5.64 | 27.14 | 3.67 | |
Fornix | fx | incomplete segmentation | ||||||
Inferior thalamic peduncle | ithp | incomplete segmentation | ||||||
Mammillothalamic tract | mt | incomplete segmentation |