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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2021

False positive rates in positron emission tomography (PET) voxelwise analyses.

Melanie Ganz, Martin Nørgaard, Vincent Beliveau, Claus Svarer, Gitte M Knudsen, Douglas N Greve

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Building an open infrastructure for molecular neuroimaging: Standards and tools from the OpenNeuroPET initiative.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026
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  5. Reproducibility of findings in modern PET neuroimaging: insight from the NRM2018 grand challenge.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Melanie GanzNeurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9120-8098
Martin NørgaardNeurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-2131-5688
Vincent BeliveauDepartment of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Claus SvarerNeurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-7811-1825
Gitte M KnudsenNeurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Douglas N GreveAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
University of Copenhagen · DKCopenhagen University Hospital · DKHarvard University · USInnsbruck Medical University · AT

Funding

ABCD-USA Consortium: Data Analysis, Informatics and Resource CenterU24DA041123 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ANDERS M DALE · 2015 to 2026
$51.5M
FreeSurfer Development, Maintenance, and HardeningR01EB023281 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Bruce Fischl, Douglas Nowlin Greve · 2016 to 2026
$5.6M
A Longitudinal Analysis Stream for FreeSurferR01NS083534 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Bruce Fischl · 2014 to 2026
$4.6M
Segmenting Brain Structures for Neurological DisordersR01NS105820 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Bruce Fischl · 2019 to 2026
$3.2M
Computational Imaging Biomarkers of Multiple SclerosisR01NS112161 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI VAN LEEMPUT, KOEN · 2019 to 2023
$1.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB023281NIDA NIH HHS U24 DA041123NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083534NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS105820NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS112161
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Issues with inflated false positive rates (FPRs) in brain imaging have recently received significant attention. However, to what extent FPRs present a problem for voxelwise analyses of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) data remains unknown. In this work, we evaluate the FPR using real PET data under group assignments that should yield no significant results after correcting for multiple comparisons. We used data from 159 healthy participants, imaged with the serotonin transporter ([

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PMID33241770
PMCPMC8221774
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