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ReviewJournal of hepatology2020

Advances in functional and molecular MRI technologies in chronic liver diseases.

Iris Y Zhou, Onofrio A Catalano, Peter Caravan

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of hepatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Iris Y ZhouAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Institute for Innovation in Imaging (i(3)), Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA.
Onofrio A CatalanoAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Peter CaravanAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Institute for Innovation in Imaging (i(3)), Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA. Electronic address: caravan@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Molecular MR Imaging of Hepatic FibrogenesisR01DK121789 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Peter D Caravan · 2019 to 2026
$5.0M
Molecular Imaging of Liver FibrosisR01DK104956 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TANABE, KENNETH K · 2015 to 2019
$2.7M
Molecular Imaging of Renal FibrogenesisU01DK104302 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CARAVAN, PETER D · 2014 to 2019
$2.1M
Quantitative MRI-PET Imaging of Pulmonary FibrosisK25HL148837 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ZHOU, IRIS YUWEN · 2020 to 2023
$686k
NHLBI NIH HHS K25 HL148837NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK104956NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK121789NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK104302
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MRI has emerged as the most comprehensive non-invasive diagnostic tool for liver diseases. In recent years, the value of MRI in hepatology has been significantly enhanced by a wide range of contrast agents, both clinically available and under development, that add functional information to anatomically detailed morphological images, or increase the distinction between normal and pathological tissues by targeting molecular and cellular events. Several classes of contrast agents are available for contrast-enhanced hepatic MRI, including i) conventional non-specific extracellular fluid contrast agents for assessing tissue perfusion; ii) hepatobiliary-specific contrast agents that are taken up by functioning hepatocytes and excreted through the biliary system for evaluating hepatobiliary function; iii) superparamagnetic iron oxide particles that accumulate in Kupffer cells; and iv) novel molecular contrast agents that are biochemically targeted to specific molecular/cellular processes for staging liver diseases or detecting treatment responses. The use of different functional and molecular MRI methods enables the non-invasive assessment of disease burden, progression, and treatment response in a variety of liver diseases. A high diagnostic performance can be achieved with MRI by combining imaging biomarkers.

Indexed as

LiverChronic DiseaseGastroenterologyHumansLiver DiseasesMagnetic Resonance ImagingMolecular ImagingChronic liver diseasesContrast agentsFibrosisFunctional imagingHepatocyte functionMolecular imagingMRIPerfusion imaging

Identifiers

PMID32585160
PMCPMC7572718
OpenAlexW3036130926

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