Fractional anisotropy maps in noise-induced hearing loss

Fractional anisotropy maps show significant differences between patients with mild noise‐induced hearing loss, relatively severe noise‐induced hearing loss, and healthy controls. The red-yellow highlighted areas indicate lower fractional anisotropy values in the left inferior longitudinal fasciculus, left inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, bilateral corticospinal tract, right fronto-pontine tract, right forceps major, left superior longitudinal fasciculus (temporal part), and left cingulum (hippocampus). The background image consists of the standard MNI T1-weighted template at 1 mm thickness and the fractional anisotropy skeleton (green). The right-hand column is the corresponding section sagittal/coronal position. (Source: Huang R, Wang A, Zhang Y, et al. Alterations of the cerebral microstructure in patients with noise-induced hearing loss: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Brain Behav 2024;14[4]:e3479. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)