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Trial reportNeuro-oncology2010

Assessing neurotoxicity from the low-dose radiation component of radiosurgery using magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Chris R Kelsey, Srinivasan Mukundan, Zhiheng Wang, Carol A Hahn, Brian J Soher, John P Kirkpatrick

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Trial report in Neuro-oncology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chris R KelseyDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3085, Durham, NC 27710, USA. kelse003@mc.duke.edu
Srinivasan Mukundan
Zhiheng Wang
Carol A Hahn
Brian J Soher
John P Kirkpatrick
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USDuke Medical Center · USDuke University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine if biochemical changes indicative of injury, assessed using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (SI), are observed after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). The study included patients who underwent SI immediately before and 1, 30, and 90 days following SRS. Short TE spectra (TR/TE 1000/35 ms) were acquired at the SRS isocenter with a 2D PRESS-CSI sequence on a single 1.5 T scanner. The SRS isodose lines were overlaid on the magnetic resonance imaging slice utilized for SI data acquisition. N-Acetyl aspartate (NAA)/creatine (Cr) and choline (Cho)/Cr ratios were computed for multiple voxels located between the 25 and 50 cGy isodose lines (low dose) and the 200 and 350 cGy isodose lines (medium dose). An analysis of variance and paired t-tests compared metabolite levels at different time points. Twelve patients were enrolled, although 3 were excluded secondary to poor spectral data quality or deviations from the prescribed SI protocol. The median number of voxels analyzed from the low- and medium-dose region was 7 and 4, respectively. No significant changes in metabolite peak height ratios over time were seen in the low-dose region, for either NAA/Cr (P = .89) or Cho/Cr (P = .85). There was no difference in Cho/Cr peak height ratios in the medium-dose region (P = .62). There was an increase in the NAA/Cr peak height ratio in the medium-dose region between day -1 and day +30 (P = .003), followed by a decline to baseline between days +30 and +90 (P = .03). We did not observe a significant decline in NAA/Cr or change in Cho/Cr peak heights in uninvolved brain parenchyma after SRS.

Indexed as

BrainBrain NeoplasmsHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyNeurotoxicity SyndromesRadiosurgery

Identifiers

PMID20150381
PMCPMC2940572
OpenAlexW2124913727

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