Axer H, Niemann K
Institute of Anatomy, Aachen University of Technology, Germany.
Methods Inf Med. 1994 Dec;33(5):488-95.
In stereotaxic neurosurgery, a variety of operative procedures focus on thalamic targets. The nomenclature of thalamic nuclei and subnuclei, however, has not yet been settled. In clinical and laboratory environments several terminologies coexist. This is an obstacle to both communication and a better understanding of recent electrophysiological findings. In the late 1980s, the application of new histochemical and immunohistochemical methods led to a deeper insight into existing correlationships between the nomenclatures. As a uniform terminology of the thalamus is still lacking, we created a knowledge-based system (THALAMUS) which gives a comprehensible survey about the most important terminologies. The different nomenclatures are related to each other by organizing them in a component-integral relation. This part-whole relation contains both the knowledge on the subdivisions of the thalamus as well as the knowledge on the correlations between the various nomenclatures.
在立体定向神经外科手术中，多种手术操作聚焦于丘脑靶点。然而，丘脑核团和亚核团的命名尚未确定。在临床和实验室环境中，几种术语并存。这对交流以及更好地理解近期的电生理研究结果而言都是障碍。20世纪80年代末，新的组织化学和免疫组织化学方法的应用使人们对现有命名之间的相互关系有了更深入的了解。由于仍然缺乏统一的丘脑术语，我们创建了一个基于知识的系统（THALAMUS），它对最重要的术语进行了全面的概述。通过将不同的命名以成分 - 整体关系进行组织，使它们相互关联。这种部分 - 整体关系既包含了丘脑细分的知识，也包含了各种命名之间相关性的知识。
