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ReviewAJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2021

Head CT: Toward Making Full Use of the Information the X-Rays Give.

K A Cauley, Y Hu, S W Fielden

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Review in AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

K A CauleyFrom the Department of Radiology (K.A.C.), Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania keithcauley@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-0247-0650
Y HuDepartment of Biomedical & Translational Informatics (Y.H.), Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-0477-0155
S W FieldenGeisinger Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute (S.W.F.), Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-5987-981X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although clinical head CT images are typically interpreted qualitatively, automated methods applied to routine clinical head CTs enable quantitative assessment of brain volume, brain parenchymal fraction, brain radiodensity, and brain radiomass. These metrics gain clinical meaning when viewed relative to a reference database and expressed as quantile regression values. Quantitative imaging data can aid in objective reporting and in the identification of outliers, with possible diagnostic implications. The comparison to a reference database necessitates standardization of head CT imaging parameters and protocols. Future research is needed to learn the effects of virtual monochromatic imaging on the quantitative characteristics of head CT images.

Indexed as

HeadTomography, X-Ray ComputedBrainDatabases, FactualHumansX-Rays

Identifiers

PMID34140278
PMCPMC8367614

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