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ReviewNeuroscience2021

Deuterium Metabolic Imaging of the Healthy and Diseased Brain.

Milou Straathof, Anu E Meerwaldt, Henk M De Feyter, Robin A de Graaf, Rick M Dijkhuizen

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In one paragraph

Review in Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023
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  18. Deuterium brain imaging at 7T during DMagnetic resonance in medicine · 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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Milou StraathofBiomedical MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Group, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Anu E MeerwaldtBiomedical MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Group, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Henk M De FeyterDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Robin A de GraafDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Rick M DijkhuizenBiomedical MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Group, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: r.m.dijkhuizen@umcutrecht.nl.
Utrecht University · NLResonance Research (United States) · USUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLYale University · US

Funding

Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) of neurological diseaseR01EB025840 · NIBIB · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ROBIN A DE GRAAF, Henk De Feyter · 2019 to 2026
$4.2M
Ex Vivo Assay for In Situ Brain-Wide Mapping of Glutamate/GABA MetabolismR01MH095104 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BEHAR, KEVIN L, DE GRAAF, ROBIN A · 2011 to 2014
$2.0M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025840NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH095104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Altered brain metabolism contributes to pathophysiology in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases such as stroke and Alzheimer's disease. Current clinical tools to study brain metabolism rely on positron emission tomography (PET) requiring specific hardware and radiotracers, or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) involving technical complexity. In this review we highlight deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) as a novel translational technique for assessment of brain metabolism, with examples from brain tumor and stroke studies. DMI is an MRS-based method that enables detection of deuterated substrates, such as glucose, and their metabolic products, such as lactate, glutamate and glutamine. It provides additional detail of downstream metabolites compared to analogous approaches like fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET, and can be implemented and executed on clinical and preclinical MR systems. We foresee that DMI, with future improvements in spatial and temporal resolutions, holds promise to become a valuable MR imaging (MRI) method for non-invasive mapping of glucose uptake and its downstream metabolites in healthy and diseased brain.

Indexed as

BrainMagnetic Resonance ImagingDeuteriumFluorodeoxyglucose F18Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyPositron-Emission TomographyDeuteriumFluorodeoxyglucose F18brain metabolismdeuteriumMRIMR spectroscopystroketumor

Identifiers

PMID33493618
PMCPMC9846473
OpenAlexW3124704649

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