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ReviewNeuroscience bulletin2018

Update on Molecular Imaging in Parkinson's Disease.

Zhen-Yang Liu, Feng-Tao Liu, Chuan-Tao Zuo, James B Koprich, Jian Wang

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Review in Neuroscience bulletin, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Imaging of dopamine transporters in Parkinson disease: a meta-analysis ofAnnals of clinical and translational neurology · 2020
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  5. Preclinical evaluation of [EJNMMI research · 2024
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  6. PET, SPECT, and MRI imaging for evaluation of Parkinson's disease.American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2024
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  7. Comparison of Transcranial Sonography and [Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2022
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  10. Dopaminergic Nigrostriatal Connectivity in Early Parkinson Disease: In Vivo Neuroimaging Study ofJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2021
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  11. [EJNMMI research · 2020
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhen-Yang LiuDepartment of Neurology and National Clinical Research Center for Ageing and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4279-7199
Feng-Tao LiuDepartment of Neurology and National Clinical Research Center for Ageing and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, China.
Chuan-Tao ZuoPET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200235, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8856-7217
James B KoprichDepartment of Neurology and National Clinical Research Center for Ageing and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, China.
Jian WangDepartment of Neurology and National Clinical Research Center for Ageing and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, China. wangjian336@hotmail.com.
Fudan University · CNUniversity Health Network · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in radionuclide tracers have allowed for more accurate imaging that reflects the actions of numerous neurotransmitters, energy metabolism utilization, inflammation, and pathological protein accumulation. All of these achievements in molecular brain imaging have broadened our understanding of brain function in Parkinson's disease (PD). The implementation of molecular imaging has supported more accurate PD diagnosis as well as assessment of therapeutic outcome and disease progression. Moreover, molecular imaging is well suited for the detection of preclinical or prodromal PD cases. Despite these advances, future frontiers of research in this area will focus on using multi-modalities combining positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging along with causal modeling with complex algorithms.

Indexed as

BrainHumansMolecular ImagingNeuroimagingParkinson DiseaseParkinson’s diseasePositron emission tomographySPECT

Identifiers

PMID29282614
PMCPMC5856723
OpenAlexW2780727099

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