Fig. 3

Lesion-overlap maps in axial and coronal plane of 52 thalamic stroke lesions. Upper row images illustrate the distribution patterns of thalamic strokes in axial (A) and coronal (B) slice in T1-weighted MNI standard space. A higher frequency of infarct lesions in the left thalamus is clearly visible. Lower row images provide a magnified lesion-overlap map of the thalamus in axial (C) and coronal (D) orientation, projected on seven sub-thalamic segments in standard space of the Oxford thalamic connectivity atlas [20]. The lesion distribution pattern as indicated by color visualizes the predominance of left anterior thalamic lesions in the anteromedian and anterolateral vascular territories when compared to right anterior thalamic lesions