JNM -- Table of Contents (45 [12])

This Month in JNM:

: THIS MONTH IN JNM
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 8a-9a. [Full Text] [PDF]

SNM Newsline:

Chengmo Zhu: International Highlights: Eighth Asia and Oceania Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, October 9–13, 2004, Beijing, China; J Nucl Med 2004 45: 13N-19N. [PDF]

Frankie Choi, C. Oliver Wong, and William Tong: AOCNMB Satellite Conference in Hong Kong; J Nucl Med 2004 45: 21N. [PDF]

Virginia Pappas: SNM Leadership Update: SNM’s Reach Should Exceed Its Grasp; J Nucl Med 2004 45: 22N. [PDF]

Mathew L. Thakur: From the SNM President: SNM to Establish Center of Molecular Imaging as New Field Emerges, Grows Rapidly; J Nucl Med 2004 45: 23N. [PDF]

: Newsbriefs; J Nucl Med 2004 45: 24N-32N. [PDF]

Invited Perspectives:

Piotr J. Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, and Guido Germano: Quantification of Serial Changes in Myocardial Perfusion
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 1978-1980. [Full Text] [PDF]

Clinical Investigations:

Emmanuel Itti, Gregory Klein, Jean Rosso, Eva Evangelista, Jean-Luc Monin, Pascal Gueret, Michel Meignan, and Jean-Philippe Thirion: Assessment of Myocardial Reperfusion After Myocardial Infarction Using Automatic 3-Dimensional Quantification and Template Matching
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 1981-1988. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Wataru Okumura, Tsutomu Iwasaki, Takuji Toyama, Tatsuya Iso, Masashi Arai, Noboru Oriuchi, Keigo Endo, Tomoyuki Yokoyama, Tadashi Suzuki, and Masahiko Kurabayashi: Usefulness of Fasting ¹⁸F-FDG PET in Identification of Cardiac Sarcoidosis
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 1989-1998. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Aiden Abidov, Jeroen J. Bax, Sean W. Hayes, Ishac Cohen, Hidetaka Nishina, Shunichi Yoda, Xingping Kang, Fatma Aboul-Enein, James Gerlach, John D. Friedman, Rory Hachamovitch, Guido Germano, and Daniel S. Berman: Integration of Automatically Measured Transient Ischemic Dilation Ratio into Interpretation of Adenosine Stress Myocardial Perfusion SPECT for Detection of Severe and Extensive CAD
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 1999-2007. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mark Lubberink, Ronald Boellaard, Arno P. van der Weerdt, Frans C. Visser, and Adriaan A. Lammertsma: Quantitative Comparison of Analytic and Iterative Reconstruction Methods in 2- and 3-Dimensional Dynamic Cardiac ¹⁸F-FDG PET
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2008-2015. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Wolfgang M. Schaefer, Claudia S.A. Lipke, Harald P. Kühl, Karl-Christian Koch, Hans-Juergen Kaiser, Patrick Reinartz, Bernd Nowak, and Udalrich Buell: Prone Versus Supine Patient Positioning During Gated ^99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT: Effect on Left Ventricular Volumes, Ejection Fraction, and Heart Rate
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2016-2020. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kalarickal J. Oommen, Sadia Saba, Joseph A. Oommen, Paul C. Francel, Charles D. Arnold, and Don A. Wilson: The Relative Localizing Value of Interictal and Immediate Postictal SPECT in Seizures of Temporal Lobe Origin
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2021-2025. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Georges El Fakhri, Marie Foley Kijewski, Marilyn S. Albert, Keith A. Johnson, and Stephen C. Moore: Quantitative SPECT Leads to Improved Performance in Discrimination Tasks Related to Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2026-2031. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Anne Roivainen, Juha Rinne, Jere Virta, Tarja Järvenpää, Satu Salomäki, Miexiang Yu, and Kjell Någren: Biodistribution and Blood Metabolism of 1-¹¹C-Methyl-4-Piperidinyl n-Butyrate in Humans: An Imaging Agent for In Vivo Assessment of Butyrylcholinesterase Activity with PET
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2032-2039. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Brigitte Wilczek, Leif Svensson, Rimma Danielsson, Fuat Celebiouglu, Stig A. Larsson, and Hans Jacobsson: ^99mTc-Exametazime as a Breast Tumor-Seeking Agent: Comparison with ^99mTc-Sestamibi
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2040-2044. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Ora Israel, Maya Mor, Luda Guralnik, Nirit Hermoni, Diana Gaitini, Rachel Bar-Shalom, Zohar Keidar, and Ron Epelbaum: Is ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Useful for Imaging and Management of Patients with Suspected Occult Recurrence of Cancer?
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2045-2051. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jurjan R. de Boer, Jan Pruim, Frans W.J. Albers, Fred Burlage, Willem Vaalburg, and Bernard F.A.M. van der Laan: Prediction of Survival and Therapy Outcome with ¹¹C-Tyrosine PET in Patients with Laryngeal Carcinoma
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2052-2057. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Rakesh Kumar, Yan Xiu, Jian Q. Yu, Amol Takalkar, Ghassan El-Haddad, Scott Potenta, Justin Kung, Hongming Zhuang, and Abass Alavi: ¹⁸F-FDG PET in Evaluation of Adrenal Lesions in Patients with Lung Cancer
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2058-2062. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Basic Science Investigations:

Mian M. Alauddin, Antranic Shahinian, Ryan Park, Michel Tohme, John D. Fissekis, and Peter S. Conti: Synthesis and Evaluation of 2'-Deoxy-2'-¹⁸F-Fluoro-5-Fluoro-1-ß-D-Arabinofuranosyluracil as a Potential PET Imaging Agent for Suicide Gene Expression
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2063-2069. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Xiaobing Tian, Mohan R. Aruva, Wenyi Qin, Weizhu Zhu, Kevin T. Duffy, Edward R. Sauter, Mathew L. Thakur, and Eric Wickstrom: External Imaging of CCND1 Cancer Gene Activity in Experimental Human Breast Cancer Xenografts with ^99mTc-Peptide-Peptide Nucleic Acid-Peptide Chimeras
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2070-2082. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Toshiki Takei, Yuji Kuge, Songji Zhao, Masayuki Sato, H. William Strauss, Francis G. Blankenberg, Jonathan F. Tait, and Nagara Tamaki: Time Course of Apoptotic Tumor Response After a Single Dose of Chemotherapy: Comparison with ^99mTc-Annexin V Uptake and Histologic Findings in an Experimental Model
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2083-2087. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Rien H. Siaens, Huub J. Rennen, Otto C. Boerman, Rudi Dierckx, and Guido Slegers: Synthesis and Comparison of ^99mTc-Enrofloxacin and ^99mTc-Ciprofloxacin
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2088-2094. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kengo Hatada, Laurent M. Riou, Mirta Ruiz, Yoshihiro Yamamichi, Adriano Duatti, Ronaldo L. Lima, Allen R. Goode, Denny D. Watson, George A. Beller, and David K. Glover: ^99mTc-N-DBODC5, a New Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Agent with Rapid Liver Clearance: Comparison with ^99mTc-Sestamibi and ^99mTc-Tetrofosmin in Rats
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2095-2101. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Pat B. Zanzonico, David V. Becker, and James R. Hurley: Enhancement of Radioiodine Treatment of Small-Pool Hyperthyroidism with Antithyroid Drugs: Kinetics and Dosimetry
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2102-2108. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jae Hoon Shin, June-Key Chung, Joo Hyun Kang, Yong Jin Lee, Kwang Il Kim, Young So, Jae Min Jeong, Dong Soo Lee, and Myung Chul Lee: Noninvasive Imaging for Monitoring of Viable Cancer Cells Using a Dual-Imaging Reporter Gene
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2109-2115. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Ralf Bergmann, Jens Pietzsch, Frank Fuechtner, Beate Pawelke, Bettina Beuthien-Baumann, Bernd Johannsen, and Joerg Kotzerke: 3-O-Methyl-6-¹⁸F-Fluoro-L-Dopa, a New Tumor Imaging Agent: Investigation of Transport Mechanism In Vitro
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2116-2122. [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Departments:

: Erratum Erratum November 2004 Newsline
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 21N-a. [Full Text] [PDF]

Robert Ware: Comments and Perspectives
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 1977. [Full Text] [PDF]

E. Edmund Kim: Book Review Book Reviews
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2123. [Full Text] [PDF]

Bruce J. Barron: Book Review History of Nuclear Medicine in Europe
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2124. [Full Text] [PDF]

Letters to the Editor:

Authors of the Letter and the Reply:
Alain Seret, Ronald Boellaard, and Arno van der Weerdt: Number of Iterations When Comparing MLEM/OSEM with FBP
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2125-2126. [Full Text] [PDF]

Authors of the Letter and the Reply:
James R. Ballinger and Sanjiv Sam Gambhir: Re: Tetraphenylphosphonium as a Novel Molecular Probe for Imaging Tumors
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2126. [Full Text] [PDF]

Authors of the Letter and the Reply:
Ernst J. Postema and Keith E. Britton: Dosimetry and Radioimmunotherapy of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
J Nucl Med 2004 45: 2126-a-2127-a. [Full Text] [PDF]