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ReviewEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2021

Imaging and dosimetry for alpha-particle emitter radiopharmaceutical therapy: improving radiopharmaceutical therapy by looking into the black box.

George Sgouros, Eric Frey, Yong Du, Rob Hobbs, Wesley Bolch

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Review in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Predicting tumour and organ dose in α-radiopharmaceutical therapy: aEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026
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  8. Advances in targeted alpha therapy of cancer.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2024
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  10. Efficacy of HER2-Targeted IntraperitonealJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2023
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  12. Optimized SPECT Imaging ofJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear 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.

George SgourosJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. gsgouros@jhmi.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1328-7114
Eric FreyJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Yong DuJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Rob HobbsJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Wesley BolchJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiopharmaceutical therapy using α-particle emitting radionuclides (αRPT) is a novel treatment modality that delivers highly potent alpha-particles to cancer cells or their environment. We review the advantages and challenges of imaging and dosimetry in implementing αRPT for cancer patients.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsRadiopharmaceuticalsAlpha ParticlesHumansRadioisotopesRadiometryRadioisotopesRadiopharmaceuticalsAlpha-particle emitterBlack boxDosimetryRadiopharmaceutical therapeutics

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