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ReviewJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2018

Sifting through the surfeit of neuroinflammation tracers.

Paul Cumming, Bjorn Burgher, Omkar Patkar, Michael Breakspear, Neil Vasdev, Paul Thomas, Guo-Jun Liu, Richard Banati

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Review in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
63citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

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

63 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Paul Cumming1 School of Psychology and Counselling and IHBI, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Bjorn Burgher2 56362 QIMR Berghofer Institute , Brisbane, Australia.
Omkar Patkar1 School of Psychology and Counselling and IHBI, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Michael Breakspear2 56362 QIMR Berghofer Institute , Brisbane, Australia.
Neil Vasdev4 Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Paul Thomas6 Herston Imaging Research Facility, Faculty of Medicine, 303224 University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research , Herston, Australia.
Guo-Jun Liu7 5419 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation , Lucas Heights, Australia.
Richard Banati7 5419 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation , Lucas Heights, Australia.
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute · AUAustralian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation · AUHarvard University · USMetro South Health · AUNational Imaging Facility · AUQueensland University of Technology · AUThe University of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The first phase of molecular brain imaging of microglial activation in neuroinflammatory conditions began some 20 years ago with the introduction of [

Indexed as

BiomarkersHumansInflammationMicrogliaNervous System DiseasesPositron-Emission TomographyTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonBiomarkersmicroglianeuroinflammationpositron emission tomographyquantitationTranslocator protein

Identifiers

PMID29256293
PMCPMC5951023
OpenAlexW2779020741

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