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ReviewJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2024

Evaluation of Neurodegenerative Disorders with Amyloid-β, Tau, and Dopaminergic PET Imaging: Interpretation Pitfalls.

Brian J Burkett, Derek R Johnson, Val J Lowe

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Radiopharmaceuticals and their applications in medicine.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025
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  13. The role of nuclear medicine in neurodegenerative diseases: a narrative review.American journal of neurodegenerative disease · 2025
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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.

Brian J BurkettDepartment of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota burkett.brian@mayo.edu.
Derek R JohnsonDepartment of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Val J LoweDepartment of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Mayo Clinic · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antiamyloid therapies for Alzheimer disease recently entered clinical practice, making imaging biomarkers for Alzheimer disease even more relevant to guiding patient management. Amyloid and tau PET are valuable tools that can provide objective evidence of Alzheimer pathophysiology in living patients and will increasingly be used to complement

Indexed as

Amyloid beta-PeptidesDopamineNeurodegenerative DiseasesPositron-Emission Tomographytau ProteinsBrainHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedAmyloid beta-PeptidesDopaminetau Proteinsamyloidbrain PETdementianeurodegenerativetau

Identifiers

PMID38664015
PMCPMC13671385
OpenAlexW4395448018

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Registered trials

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