This Month in JNM:

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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]  

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