Table 4 Mean measurements of all Hartel trajectories (mm); TL = total length, EP = entry point (X/Y/Z), ALPHA = height angle, BETA = horizontal angle
From: The foramen ovale: a keyhole to the brain? Computer simulations of percutaneous FO punctures
TL | EP | Alpha | Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Left | Right | Left | Right | Left | Right | Left | Right | |
Hippocampus | 120.5 | 122.1 | (42.4/30.5/26.9) | (38.8/34.8/29.6) | 51.6 | 53.5 | 15.5 | 12.6 |
Ventricle | 122.8 | 135.1 | (42.7/30.7/26.6) | (37.1/28.7/29.1) | 55.2 | 50.0 | 17.8 | 14.0 |
Brainstem | 108.2 | 107.9 | (57.8/36.2/10.2) | (52.7/35.4/12.0) | 40.8 | 42.5 | 34.0 | 31.4 |
S. cavernosus | 73.2 | 72.9 | (73.9/75.3/18.2) | (71.4/71.7/19.0) | 30.8 | 30.5 | 19.2 | 21.5 |
Amygdala | 132.1 | 134.5 | (50.4/48.0/25.7) | (39.4/38.3/21.0) | 74.8 | 68.2 | 40.3 | 18.3 |
Thalamus | 142.0 | 142.3 | (53.3/42.4/19.4) | (45.0/35.1/23.1) | 50.7 | 54.2 | 32.3 | 24.9 |