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ReviewAmerican journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2021

Critical review of PET imaging for detection and characterization of the atherosclerotic plaques with emphasis on limitations of FDG-PET compared to NaF-PET in this setting.

Abass Alavi, Thomas J Werner, William Raynor, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim

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Review in American 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 8 papers.

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8citing 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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Polymeric Nanomaterials for Atherosclerosis Diagnosis and Treatment.Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2025
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  4. Quantitative aortic Na[European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 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

5 authors.

Abass AlaviDepartment of Radiology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 19104, PA, USA.
Thomas J WernerDepartment of Radiology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 19104, PA, USA.
William RaynorDepartment of Radiology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 19104, PA, USA.
Poul Flemming Høilund-CarlsenDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital Odense 5000, Denmark.
Mona-Elisabeth RevheimDivision of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Oslo 0424, Norway.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Applications of various positron emission tomography (PET) tracers for assessing atherosclerosis have been evolving over the years.

Indexed as

Atherosclerosiscardiovascular diseaseFDGNaFPET quantification

Identifiers

PMID34754605
PMCPMC8569336

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