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Trial reportHuman brain mapping2019

Quantitative neuroimaging measures of myelin in the healthy brain and in multiple sclerosis.

Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh, Irene Vavasour, Emil Ljungberg, David K B Li, Alexander Rauscher, Victoria Levesque, Hideki Garren, David Clayton, Roger Tam, Anthony Traboulsee and 1 more

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Trial report in Human brain mapping, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. MWF of the corpus callosum is a robust measure of remyelination: Results from the ReBUILD trial.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  17. A preliminary study of the effects of an antimuscarinic agent on anxious behaviors and white matter microarchitecture in nonhuman primates.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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  18. Human white matter myelinates faster in utero than ex utero.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  19. Neuroprotection in Cerebral Cortex Induced by the Pregnancy Hormone Estriol.Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology · 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

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Jonathan O'MuircheartaighDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8033-6959
Irene VavasourDepartment of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Emil LjungbergDepartment of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1456-7967
David K B LiDepartment of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Alexander RauscherDepartment of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Victoria LevesqueGenentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California.
Hideki GarrenGenentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California.
David ClaytonGenentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California.
Roger TamDepartment of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Anthony TraboulseeMS/MRI Research Group, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Shannon KolindDepartment of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CAKaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center · USSt Thomas' Hospital · GBWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N026063/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques have been developed as imaging biomarkers, aiming to improve the specificity of MRI to underlying pathology compared to conventional weighted MRI. For assessing the integrity of white matter (WM), myelin, in particular, several techniques have been proposed and investigated individually. However, comparisons between these methods are lacking. In this study, we compared four established myelin-sensitive MRI techniques in 56 patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and 38 healthy controls. We used T2-relaxation with combined GRadient And Spin Echoes (GRASE) to measure myelin water fraction (MWF-G), multi-component driven equilibrium single pulse observation of T

Indexed as

AdultBrainFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedMultiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-RemittingMyelin SheathNeuroimagingYoung Adultindividual differencesmagnetization transfer ratiomultiple sclerosismyelinmyelin water imagingquantitative MRIrelaxometry

Identifiers

PMID30648315
PMCPMC6590140
OpenAlexW2909629350

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