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Ordinal rating scales are widely used to rate tremor severity but are limited by subjective observation, interrater reliability, ceiling effects and lack of knowledge about sensitivity to change emphasizing the relevance of quantitative methods.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>To assess tremor characteristics in essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson\u2019s disease tremor (PT) quantitatively, we used a wearable triaxial accelerometer in comparison to a common clinical rating scale. Furthermore, different activation conditions and changes after treatment with MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) were examined concomitantly. Patients with disabling, medication-refractory ET (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u202f=\u202f35) or PT (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u202f=\u202f21) undergoing unilateral MRgFUS thalamotomy were assessed before, 1, 6 and 12 months after MRgFUS treatment. Clinical assessments included the Clinical Rating Scale for Tremor (CRST) and accelerometric recordings at rest, posture and kinetic movement. Peak frequencies (fp), frequency width at half maximum (FWHM), tremor stability index (TSI), and half-width power (HWP) were extracted from the power spectrum of acceleration and compared to the CRST.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We observed moderate to strong correlations between CRST subscores and log-transformed HWP, whereas significant correlations were only evident in ET when groups were evaluated separately. Fp, FWHM and TSI showed no differences between groups and conditions. Further, repeated measurements after MRgFUS treatment revealed significant changes of tremor severity in both, clinical rating and accelerometric recordings.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Tremor assessment using accelerometric recordings provided a fast and investigator independent method for tremor characterization and quantitative assessment, which were sensitive to changes after therapeutic interventions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fneur.2025.1594382","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,2]],"date-time":"2025-05-02T11:49:03Z","timestamp":1746186543000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Quantitative and qualitative tremor evaluation after MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Veronika","family":"Purrer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tara","family":"Chand","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emily","family":"Pohl","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hannah","family":"Weiland","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Valeri","family":"Borger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carsten","family":"Schmeel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Henning","family":"Boecker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ullrich","family":"W\u00fcllner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"75","DOI":"10.1002\/mds.27121","article-title":"Consensus statement on the classification of tremors. 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