Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22529704›Full record

ReviewJournal of biomedicine & biotechnology2012

SPECT molecular imaging in Parkinson's disease.

Ling Wang, Qi Zhang, Huanbin Li, Hong Zhang

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Review in Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. AI in SPECT Imaging: Opportunities and Challenges.Seminars in nuclear medicine · 2025
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  10. Evaluation of Brain SPECT withParkinson's disease · 2022
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  15. Feasible Classified Models for Parkinson Disease fromSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  19. Imaging of Motor Cortex Physiology in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2018
    Review
  20. Degree of dopaminergic degeneration measured byNeural regeneration research · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ling WangDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009, China.
Qi Zhang
Huanbin Li
Hong Zhang

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common disorder, and the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease is clinical and relies on the presence of characteristic motor symptoms. The accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of PD is still limited. Functional neuroimaging using SPECT technique is helpful in patients with first signs of parkinsonism. The changes detected may reflect the disease process itself and/or compensatory responses to the disease, or they may arise in association with disease- and/or treatment-related complications. This paper addresses the value of SPECT in early differential diagnosis of PD and its potential as a sensitive tool to assess the pathophysiology and progression, as well as the therapeutic efficacy of PD.

Indexed as

Brain ChemistryHumansMolecular ImagingParkinson DiseaseTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

Identifiers

PMID22529704
PMCPMC3321451

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