Subsequent MRI brain (figure 2) showed extensive microvascular white matter disease and a large right basal ganglia infarct extending into the right corona radiata. (mdsabstracts.org)
Potential injury in a patient's brain isn't visible with a structural MRI (left), but high - definition fiber tracking (right) reveals asymmetry in the corona radiata brain tract. (discovermagazine.com)
Your stroke «picked off» the corona radiata — an area of white matter underneath the cortex (the cortico - spinal tracts run through it from the motor cortex on down), which explains why you had the symptoms you did. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)