Clinical Investigations:

Georg Burggasser, Ingrid Hurtl, Wolfgang Hauff, Julius Lukas, Michaela Greifeneder, Bamdad Heydari, Arnulf Thaler, Andreas Wedrich, and Irene Virgolini

Orbital Scintigraphy with the Somatostatin Receptor Tracer ^99mTc-P829 in Patients with Graves’ Disease
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1547-1555. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Bushnell, Thomas O’Dorisio, Yusuf Menda, Thomas Carlisle, Pamela Zehr, Mary Connolly, Mark Karwal, Sara Miller, Stan Parker, and Hakim Bouterfa

Evaluating the Clinical Effectiveness of ⁹⁰Y-SMT 487 in Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1556-1560. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Omar Alonso, Miguel Martínez, Lucía Delgado, Ana De León, Daniela De Boni, Graciela Lago, Mariela Garcés, Flávia Fontes, José Espasandín, and Julio Priario

Staging of Regional Lymph Nodes in Melanoma Patients by Means of ^99mTc-MIBI Scintigraphy
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1561-1565. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fabio Minutoli, Filippo F. Angileri, Sebastiano Cosentino, Giorgio Restifo Pecorella, Salvatore Cardali, Oreste De Divitiis, Antonino Germanò, and Sergio Baldari

^99mTc-MIBI SPECT in Distinguishing Neoplastic from Nonneoplastic Intracerebral Hematoma
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1566-1573. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giuseppe Picciotto, Antonella Sargiotto, Mauro Petrarulo, Claudio Rabbia, Pier Giuseppe De Filippi, and Dario Roccatello

Reliability of Captopril Renography in Patients Under Chronic Therapy with Angiotensin II (AT1) Receptor Antagonists
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1574-1581. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazuki Fukuchi, Yasuo Ono, Yayoi Nakahata, Yoko Okada, Kohei Hayashida, and Yoshio Ishida

Visualization of Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue Using ^99mTc-Tetrofosmin in Pediatric Patients
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1582-1585. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Charron

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity Assessment with Biologic Markers and ^99mTc-WBC Scintigraphy: Are There Different Trends in Ileitis Versus Colitis?
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1586-1591. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ikuo Yokoyama, Yusuke Inoue, Toshiyuki Moritan, Kuni Ohtomo, and Ryozo Nagai

Simple Quantification of Skeletal Muscle Glucose Utilization by Static ¹⁸F-FDG PET
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1592-1598. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sheng-Ting Li, Courtney Holmes, Irwin J. Kopin, and David S. Goldstein

Aging-Related Changes in Cardiac Sympathetic Function in Humans, Assessed by 6-¹⁸F-Fluorodopamine PET Scanning
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1599-1603. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takuji Toyama, Hiroshi Hoshizaki, Ryotaro Seki, Naoki Isobe, Hitoshi Adachi, Shigeto Naito, Shigeru Oshima, and Koichi Taniguchi

Efficacy of Carvedilol Treatment on Cardiac Function and Cardiac Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Comparison with Metoprolol Therapy
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1604-1611. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hidenobu Terai, Masami Shimizu, Hidekazu Ino, Masato Yamaguchi, Katsuharu Uchiyama, Kotaro Oe, Kenichi Nakajima, Junichi Taki, Masaya Kawano, and Hiroshi Mabuchi

Changes in Cardiac Sympathetic Nerve Innervation and Activity in Pathophysiologic Transition from Typical to End-Stage Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1612-1617. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masahiko Sato, Kazuhira Maehara, Hiroyuki Yaoita, Hiroshi Otani, Akira Hirosaka, Tomiyoshi Saito, Norio Onuki, Nobuo Komatsu, Takako Ishihata, and Yukio Maruyama

Correlation Between Cardiac Norepinephrine Overflow During Exercise and Cardiac ¹²³I-MIBG Uptake in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1618-1624. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Florent Cachin, Janusz Lipiecki, Danièle Mestas, Aimé Amonchot, Benjamin Geissler, Cyril Thouly, Jean Ponsonnaille, and Jean Maublant

Preliminary Evaluation of a Fuzzy Logic-Based Automatic Quantitative Analysis in Myocardial SPECT
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1625-1632. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sean W. Hayes, Andrea De Lorenzo, Rory Hachamovitch, Sanjay C. Dhar, Patrick Hsu, Ishac Cohen, John D. Friedman, Xingping Kang, and Daniel S. Berman

Prognostic Implications of Combined Prone and Supine Acquisitions in Patients with Equivocal or Abnormal Supine Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1633-1640. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brief Communications:

Sadek A. Nehmeh, Yusuf E. Erdi, Kenneth E. Rosenzweig, Heiko Schoder, Steve M. Larson, Olivia D. Squire, and John L. Humm

Reduction of Respiratory Motion Artifacts in PET Imaging of Lung Cancer by Respiratory Correlated Dynamic PET: Methodology and Comparison with Respiratory Gated PET
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1644-1648. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Franz Buchegger, Florent Bonvin, Marek Kosinski, Andreas O. Schaffland, John Prior, Jean C. Reubi, Peter Bläuenstein, Dirk Tourwé, Elisa García Garayoa, and Angelika Bischof Delaloye

Radiolabeled Neurotensin Analog, ^99mTc-NT-XI, Evaluated in Ductal Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Patients
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1649-1654. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Invited Commentary:

Dong Soo Lee, Jin Chul Paeng, and Myung Chul Lee

Implication of Prognostically Significant Negative Results on Prone SPECT
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1641-1643. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paolo G. Camici

Gated PET and Ventricular Volume
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1662. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Basic Science Investigations:

Etienne Croteau, François Bénard, Jules Cadorette, Marie-Ève Gauthier, Antonio Aliaga, M’hamed Bentourkia, and Roger Lecomte

Quantitative Gated PET for the Assessment of Left Ventricular Function in Small Animals
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1655-1661. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Iris Verel, Gerard W.M. Visser, Ronald Boellaard, Otto C. Boerman, Julliette van Eerd, Gordon B. Snow, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, and Guus A.M.S van Dongen

Quantitative ⁸⁹Zr Immuno-PET for In Vivo Scouting of ⁹⁰Y-Labeled Monoclonal Antibodies in Xenograft-Bearing Nude Mice
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1663-1670. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jun Toyohara, Akie Gogami, Akio Hayashi, Yoshiharu Yonekura, and Yasuhisa Fujibayashi

Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism of 5-¹²⁵I-Iodo-4'-Thio-2'-Deoxyuridine in Rodents
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1671-1676. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeanette Méndez, Anne M. Wallace, Carl K. Hoh, and David R. Vera

Detection of Gastric and Colonic Sentinel Nodes Through Endoscopic Administration of ^99mTc-DTPA-Mannosyl-Dextran in Pigs
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1677-1681. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Bauer, Marcus H. Holschbach, Markus Cremer, Simone Weber, Christian Boy, N. Jon Shah, Ray A. Olsson, Horst Halling, Heinz H. Coenen, and Karl Zilles

Evaluation of ¹⁸F-CPFPX, a Novel Adenosine A₁ Receptor Ligand: In Vitro Autoradiography and High-Resolution Small Animal PET
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1682-1689. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ernst J. Postema, Pontus K.E. Börjesson, Wilhelmina C.A.M. Buijs, Jan C. Roos, Henri A.M. Marres, Otto C. Boerman, Remco de Bree, Margreet Lang, Gerd Munzert, Guus A.M.S. van Dongen, and Wim J.G. Oyen

Dosimetric Analysis of Radioimmunotherapy with ¹⁸⁶Re-Labeled Bivatuzumab in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1690-1699. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erik F.J. de Vries, Aren van Waarde, Anne Rixt Buursma, and Willem Vaalburg

Synthesis and In Vivo Evaluation of ¹⁸F-Desbromo-DuP-697 as a PET Tracer for Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1700-1706. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Departments:

Erratum Erratum
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1603. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Ekaterina Dadachova and Lionel S. Zuckier

Overlooked Contributions on Sodium Iodide Symporter
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1707. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hamphrey R. Ham

Mean Transit Time and Functional Image in Asialoglycoprotein Receptor Scintigraphy
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1707. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ernst J. Postema, Wilhelmina C.A.M. Buijs, Otto C. Boerman, and Wim J.G. Oyen

Underestimation of Absorbed Dose to Kidney
J Nucl Med 2003 44: 1707-1708. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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