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ArticleJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2020

Rubidium-82 generator yield and efficiency for PET perfusion imaging: Comparison of two clinical systems.

Ali Ahmadi, Ran Klein, Howard C Lewin, Rob S B Beanlands, Robert A deKemp

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Article in Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Positron Range Correction Helps Enhance the Image Quality of CardiacJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2025
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  7. The abnormal right ventricle: Relevant on low risk SPECT perfusion images?Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2022
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  8. Letter to the editor: Lassen et al. 3D PET/CTEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2020
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  9. Generator science and pragmatics: The "nuclear" in nuclear cardiology.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2020
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  10. Rb-82 generator yield.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ali AhmadiDivision of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, National Cardiac PET Centre, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4W7, Canada.
Ran KleinDivision of Nuclear Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Howard C LewinCardiac Imaging Nuclear Associates, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Rob S B BeanlandsDivision of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, National Cardiac PET Centre, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4W7, Canada.
Robert A deKempDivision of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, National Cardiac PET Centre, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4W7, Canada. RAdeKemp@ottawaheart.ca.
University of Ottawa · CACardiovascular Research Associates · USOttawa Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionStrontium-82/Rubidium-82 (

methodsN = 515 sequential daily quality assurance (QA) reports from 9 CardioGen-82

resultsAt the start of clinical use, the system reported

conclusions

Indexed as

Rubidium RadioisotopesStrontium RadioisotopesHeart DiseasesHumansMyocardial Perfusion ImagingPositron-Emission TomographyQuality Assurance, Health CareRadionuclide GeneratorsRetrospective StudiesRubidium-82Rubidium RadioisotopesStrontium-82Strontium Radioisotopesdaily quality assuranceMyocardial perfusion imagingpositron emission tomographyrubidium-82 generator

Identifiers

PMID32436115
PMCPMC7599151
OpenAlexW3020327143

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