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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2018

Emerging Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques and Analysis Methods in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Andrew W Barritt, Matt C Gabel, Mara Cercignani, P Nigel Leigh

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Emotional Regulation and Adolescent Concussion: Overview and Role of Neuroimaging.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrew W BarrittClinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom.
Matt C GabelDepartment of Neuroscience, Trafford Centre for Biomedical Research Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom.
Mara CercignaniClinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom.
P Nigel LeighHurstwood Park Neurological Centre Haywards Heath, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Brighton and Sussex Medical School · GBHaywards Heath Hospital · GB

Funding

Motor Neurone Disease Association CERCIGNANI/OCT12/865-792Motor Neurone Disease Association LEIGH/APR14/824-791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective markers of disease sensitive to the clinical activity, symptomatic progression, and underlying substrates of neurodegeneration are highly coveted in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in order to more eloquently stratify the highly heterogeneous phenotype and facilitate the discovery of effective disease modifying treatments for patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a promising, non-invasive biomarker candidate whose acquisition techniques and analysis methods are undergoing constant evolution in the pursuit of parameters which more closely represent biologically-applicable tissue changes. Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI; a form of diffusion imaging), and quantitative Magnetization Transfer Imaging (qMTi) are two such emerging modalities which have each broadened the understanding of other neurological disorders and have the potential to provide new insights into structural alterations initiated by the disease process in ALS. Furthermore, novel neuroimaging data analysis approaches such as Event-Based Modeling (EBM) may be able to circumvent the requirement for longitudinal scanning as a means to comprehend the dynamic stages of neurodegeneration

Indexed as

event-based modelmotor neuron diseaseMRI—magnetic resonance imagingneurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI)quantitative magnetization transfer imaging

Identifiers

PMID30564192
PMCPMC6288229
OpenAlexW2902955061

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