JNM -- Table of Contents (48 [ Issue 9])

This Month in JNM:

: This Month in JNM
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 11A-12A. [Full Text] [PDF]

SNM Newsline:

Robert E. Henkin: Are You Ready?; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 13N-39N. [PDF]

: SNM Salutes Outstanding Contributors at 54th Annual Meeting; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 14N-20N. [PDF]

George Sgouros: Watson Receives Loevinger–Berman Award; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 18N-20N. [PDF]

Katherine Ferrara: Ultrasound Molecular Imaging: On the Move; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 22N. [PDF]

Henry D. Royal: Part IV of MOC: What Is It?; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 27N. [PDF]

Alexander J. McEwan: How Do We Introduce the Next Generation of Radiotracers into Clinical Practice?; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 28N-30N. [PDF]

Hugh Cannon: Senate Appropriators Restore Funding for Basic Nuclear Medicine Research at DOE; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 29N-30N. [PDF]

: NEWSBRIEFS; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 31N-34N. [PDF]

: FROM THE LITERATURE; J Nucl Med 2007 48: 35N-39N. [PDF]

Invited Perspectives:

Arnold M. Strashun: A Reduced Role of V/Q Scintigraphy in the Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1405-1407 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.041988). [Full Text] [PDF]

Kyung-Han Lee: Quantum Dots: A Quantum Jump for Molecular Imaging?
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1408-1410 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.042069). [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Clinical Investigations:

Alexander Gottschalk, Paul D. Stein, H. Dirk Sostman, Fadi Matta, and Afzal Beemath: Very Low Probability Interpretation of V/Q Lung Scans in Combination with Low Probability Objective Clinical Assessment Reliably Excludes Pulmonary Embolism: Data from PIOPED II
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1411-1415 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040998). [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Denis Mariano-Goulart, Laurent Déchaux, François Rouzet, Eric Barbotte, Charles Caderas de Kerleau, Michel Rossi, and Dominique Le Guludec: Diagnosis of Diffuse and Localized Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia by Gated Blood-Pool SPECT
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1416-1423 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.041129). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Tiziano Schepis, Oliver Gaemperli, Pascal Koepfli, Mehdi Namdar, Ines Valenta, Hans Scheffel, Sebastian Leschka, Lars Husmann, Franz R. Eberli, Thomas F. Luscher, Hatem Alkadhi, and Philipp A. Kaufmann: Added Value of Coronary Artery Calcium Score as an Adjunct to Gated SPECT for the Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease in an Intermediate-Risk Population
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1424-1430 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040758). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Lei Zhang, Zheng-Hong Zhu, Hao-Jie Dai, Zhi-Gang Cai, Chi Mao, Xin Peng, and Guang-Yan Yu: Application of ^99mTc-Pertechnetate Scintigraphy to Microvascular Autologous Transplantation of the Submandibular Gland in Patients with Severe Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1431-1435 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.037705). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Omid S. Tehrani, Otto Muzik, Lance K. Heilbrun, Kirk A. Douglas, Jawana M. Lawhorn-Crews, Haihao Sun, Thomas J. Mangner, and Anthony F. Shields: Tumor Imaging Using 1-(2'-deoxy-2'-¹⁸F- Fluoro-ß-D-Arabinofuranosyl)Thymine and PET
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1436-1441 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.042762). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Feng Wang, Zizheng Wang, Weixuan Yao, Hong Xie, Jie Xu, and Li Tian: Role of ^99mTc-Octreotide Acetate Scintigraphy in Suspected Lung Cancer Compared with ¹⁸F-FDG Dual-Head Coincidence Imaging
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1442-1448 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040824). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Roslyn J. Francis, Michael J. Byrne, Agatha A. van der Schaaf, Jan A. Boucek, Anna K. Nowak, Michael Phillips, Richard Price, Andrew P. Patrikeos, A. William Musk, and Michael J. Millward: Early Prediction of Response to Chemotherapy and Survival in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Using a Novel Semiautomated 3-Dimensional Volume-Based Analysis of Serial ¹⁸F-FDG PET Scans
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1449-1458 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.042333). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Aurélie Kas, Pierre Payoux, Marie-Odile Habert, Zoulikha Malek, Yann Cointepas, Georges El Fakhri, Philippe Chaumet-Riffaud, Emmanuel Itti, and Philippe Remy: Validation of a Standardized Normalization Template for Statistical Parametric Mapping Analysis of ¹²³I-FP-CIT Images
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1459-1467 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.038646). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Continuing Education:

Wei Chen: Clinical Applications of PET in Brain Tumors
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1468-1481 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.037689). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Erratum:

: Erratum
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1430. [Full Text] [PDF]

Basic Science Investigations:

Karl-Josef Langen, Dagmar Salber, Kurt Hamacher, Gabriele Stoffels, Guido Reifenberger, Dirk Pauleit, Heinz H. Coenen, and Karl Zilles: Detection of Secondary Thalamic Degeneration After Cortical Infarction Using cis-4-¹⁸F-Fluoro- D-Proline
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1482-1491 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.041699). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Bernard Le Foll, Svetlana I. Chefer, Alane S. Kimes, Dean Shumway, Steven R. Goldberg, Elliot A. Stein, and Alexey G. Mukhin: Validation of an Extracerebral Reference Region Approach for the Quantification of Brain Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Squirrel Monkeys with PET and 2-¹⁸F-Fluoro-A-85380
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1492-1500 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.039776). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Data

Lakshmi Sampath, Sunkuk Kwon, Shi Ke, Wei Wang, Rachel Schiff, Michel E. Mawad, and Eva M. Sevick-Muraca: Dual-Labeled Trastuzumab-Based Imaging Agent for the Detection of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Overexpression in Breast Cancer
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1501-1510 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.042234). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Meike L. Schipper, Zhen Cheng, Sheen-Woo Lee, Laurent A. Bentolila, Gopal Iyer, Jianghong Rao, Xiaoyuan Chen, Anna M. Wu, Shimon Weiss, and Sanjiv S. Gambhir: microPET-Based Biodistribution of Quantum Dots in Living Mice
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1511-1518 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040071). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Videos

Robert J. Mairs, Susan C. Ross, Anthony G. McCluskey, and Marie Boyd: A Transfectant Mosaic Xenograft Model for Evaluation of Targeted Radiotherapy in Combination with Gene Therapy In Vivo
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1519-1526 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.042226). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jin Su Kim, Jae Sung Lee, Ki Chun Im, Su Jin Kim, Seog-Young Kim, Dong Soo Lee, and Dae Hyuk Moon: Performance Measurement of the microPET Focus 120 Scanner
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1527-1535 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040550). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Zhanhong Wu, Zi-Bo Li, Kai Chen, Weibo Cai, Lina He, Frederick T. Chin, Fang Li, and Xiaoyuan Chen: microPET of Tumor Integrin ${alpha}$ _vß₃ Expression Using ¹⁸F-Labeled PEGylated Tetrameric RGD Peptide (¹⁸F-FPRGD4)
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1536-1544 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040816). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Data

Walter Mier, Sabine Zitzmann, Susanne Krämer, Jennifer Reed, Eva-Maria Knapp, Annette Altmann, Michael Eisenhut, and Uwe Haberkorn: Influence of Chelate Conjugation on a Newly Identified Tumor-Targeting Peptide
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1545-1552 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.036707). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kwang Il Kim, Joo Hyun Kang, June-Key Chung, Yong Jin Lee, Jae Min Jeong, Dong Soo Lee, and Myung Chul Lee: Doxorubicin Enhances the Expression of Transgene Under Control of the CMV Promoter in Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Cells
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1553-1561 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.038612). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kristy E. Bailey, Danny L. Costantini, Zhongli Cai, Deborah A. Scollard, Zhuo Chen, Raymond M. Reilly, and Katherine A. Vallis: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibition Modulates the Nuclear Localization and Cytotoxicity of the Auger Electron–Emitting Radiopharmaceutical ¹¹¹In-DTPA–Human Epidermal Growth Factor
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1562-1570 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.044073). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]

Letters to the Editor:

Nicolas Aide and Stéphane Bardet: Would Patient Selection Based on Both Calcitonin Blood Level and Doubling Time Improve ¹⁸F-FDG PET Sensitivity in Restaging of Medullary Thyroid Cancer?
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1574 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.044248). [Full Text] [PDF]

Heiko Schöder and R. Michael Tuttle: Reply: Would Patient Selection Based on Both Calcitonin Blood Level and Doubling Time Improve ¹⁸F-FDG PET Sensitivity in Restaging of Medullary Thyroid Cancer?
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1574-a-1575-a (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.044446). [Full Text] [PDF]

Book Reviews:

D. McRae, Robert Matthews, and Ricardo Matthews: Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1571-1572 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.042549). [Full Text] [PDF]

G.J.R. Cook, M.N. Maisey, K.E. Britton, V. Chengazi, and Christiaan Schiepers: Clinical Nuclear Medicine
J Nucl Med 2007 48: 1573 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.043000). [Full Text] [PDF]