MR volumetry in detection of brain atrophic changes in MS patients and its implication on disease prognosis: retrospective study

Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 5 Cutoff value for diagnosis of atrophy of thalamus, whole brain, caudate, putamen and corpus callosum

	Controls		Cutoff value for atrophy diagnosis
	Mean	SD	Cutoff value for atrophy diagnosis
Thalamus (volume relative to intracranial volume)	0.0052	0.0007	0.0038
Caudate (volume relative to intracranial volume)	0.0024	0.0003	0.0018
Putamen (volume relative to intracranial volume)	0.0034	0.0004	0.0026
Corpus callosum	0.0023	0.0004	0.0015
Whole brain (volume relative to intracranial volume)	0.7470	0.0634	0.6202