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    Interventional procedure overview of MRI-guided focused ultrasound subthalamotomy for treating Parkinson's

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    Table 1 Abbreviations

    Abbreviation

    Definition

    C-GIC

    Clinician's Global Impression of Change

    CI

    Confidence interval

    DBS 

    deep brain stimulation 

    FUS

    Focused ultrasound

    GPI

    Globus Pallidus Internus

    LDD 

    Levodopa daily dosage 

    LEDD

    levodopa equivalent daily dose

    MRgFUS 

    Magnetic Resonance Image guided Focused Ultrasound 

    MDS-UPDRS

    Movement Disorder Society–Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale

    PD 

    Parkinson's  

    PDQ-39SI

    Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire 39 summary index

    P-GIC

    Patients' Global Impression of Change (P-GIC)

    PTT

    Pallidothalamic tract

    QoL 

    Quality of Life 

    RT

    Radiofrequency Thalamotomy

    RCT

    Randomised controlled trial

    SD

    Standard deviation

    STN

    Subthalamic nucleus

    UDRS

    Unified Dyskinesia Rating Scale

    VIM

    Ventral intermediate nucleus