This Month in JNM:

This Month in JNM
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 13A-14A. [Full Text] [PDF]  

SNM Newsline:

New NRC Guidance on Release of Patients After ¹³¹I Treatment

J Nucl Med 2008 49: 16N. [PDF]  

Jeffry A. Siegel and Edward B. Silberstein

A Closer Look at the Latest NRC Patient Release Guidance

J Nucl Med 2008 49: 17N-20N. [PDF]  

Daniel C. Sullivan

Imaging Biomarkers Roundtable Report

J Nucl Med 2008 49: 22N-24N. [PDF]  

Henry D. Royal

Maintenance of Licensure and Maintenance of Certification
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 22N-a-24N-a. [PDF]  

Robert W. Atcher

Facing New Horizons, Meeting New Challenges

J Nucl Med 2008 49: 23N-24N. [PDF]  

Mark Wallenmeyer

Beginning Again—Again

J Nucl Med 2008 49: 26N. [PDF]  

NEWSBRIEFS

J Nucl Med 2008 49: 27N-29N. [PDF]  

FROM THE LITERATURE

J Nucl Med 2008 49: 30N-34N. [PDF]  

Invited Perspectives:

Vladimir Ponomarev

Imaging Regulation of Endogenous Gene Expression Using Spliceosome-Mediated Trans-Splicing
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1035-1037 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049270). [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical Investigations:

Matthias R. Benz, Vladimir Evilevitch, Martin S. Allen-Auerbach, Fritz C. Eilber, Michael E. Phelps, Johannes Czernin, and Wolfgang A. Weber

Treatment Monitoring by ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in Patients with Sarcomas: Interobserver Variability of Quantitative Parameters in Treatment-Induced Changes in Histopathologically Responding and Nonresponding Tumors
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1038-1046 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.050187). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claude Nahmias, Catherine Lemmens, David Faul, Eric Carlson, Misty Long, Todd Blodgett, Johan Nuyts, and David Townsend

Does Reducing CT Artifacts from Dental Implants Influence the PET Interpretation in PET/CT Studies of Oral Cancer and Head and Neck Cancer?
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1047-1052 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049858). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tassei Nakagawa, Masatoshi Yamada, and Yoshio Suzuki

¹⁸F-FDG Uptake in Reactive Neck Lymph Nodes of Oral Cancer: Relationship to Lymphoid Follicles
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1053-1059 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049718). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaroslaw B. Cwikla, Renata Mikolajczak, Dariusz Pawlak, John R. Buscombe, Anna Nasierowska-Guttmejer, Andrzej Bator, Helmut R. Maecke, and Jerzy Walecki

Initial Direct Comparison of ^99mTc-TOC and ^99mTc-TATE in Identifying Sites of Disease in Patients with Proven GEP NETs
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1060-1065 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.046961). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neeta Pandit-Taskar, Joseph A. O'Donoghue, Michael J. Morris, Eze A. Wills, Lawrence H. Schwartz, Mithat Gonen, Howard I. Scher, Steven M. Larson, and Chaitanya R. Divgi

Antibody Mass Escalation Study in Patients with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Using ¹¹¹In-J591: Lesion Detectability and Dosimetric Projections for ⁹⁰Y Radioimmunotherapy
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1066-1074 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049502). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yasuyuki Suzuki, Piotr J. Slomka, Arik Wolak, Muneo Ohba, Shoji Suzuki, Ling De Yang, Guido Germano, and Daniel S. Berman

Motion-Frozen Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Improves Detection of Coronary Artery Disease in Obese Patients
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1075-1079 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.050997). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter P. Steele, Dennis L. Kirch, and John E. Koss

Comparison of Simultaneous Dual-Isotope Multipinhole SPECT with Rotational SPECT in a Group of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1080-1089 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040915). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Data  

Barbara Sotgia, Roberto Sciagrà, Iacopo Olivotto, Giancarlo Casolo, Luigi Rega, Irene Betti, Alberto Pupi, Paolo G. Camici, and Franco Cecchi

Spatial Relationship Between Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Delayed Contrast Enhancement in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1090-1096 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.050138). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olivier G. Rousset, D. Louis Collins, Arman Rahmim, and Dean F. Wong

Design and Implementation of an Automated Partial Volume Correction in PET: Application to Dopamine Receptor Quantification in the Normal Human Striatum
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1097-1106 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.048330). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hubertus Hautzel, Oliver Sander, Alexander Heinzel, Matthias Schneider, and Hans-Wilhelm Müller

Assessment of Large-Vessel Involvement in Giant Cell Arteritis with ¹⁸F-FDG PET: Introducing an ROC-Analysis–Based Cutoff Ratio
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1107-1113 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.051920). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Continuing Education:

Pat Zanzonico

Routine Quality Control of Clinical Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: A Brief Review
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1114-1131 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.050203). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erratum:

Erratum
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1096. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Basic Science Investigations:

Yongfeng Yang, Yibao Wu, Jinyi Qi, Sara St. James, Huini Du, Purushottam A. Dokhale, Kanai S. Shah, Richard Farrell, and Simon R. Cherry

A Prototype PET Scanner with DOI-Encoding Detectors
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1132-1140 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049791). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liying Chen, Lisa S. Gobar, Negar G. Knowles, Zhonglin Liu, Arthur F. Gmitro, and Harrison H. Barrett

Direct Imaging of Radionuclide-Produced Electrons and Positrons with an Ultrathin Phosphor
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1141-1145 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040568). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zachary F. Walls, M. Puttaraju, Gary F. Temple, and Sanjiv S. Gambhir

A Generalizable Strategy for Imaging pre-mRNA Levels in Living Subjects Using Spliceosome-Mediated RNA Trans-Splicing
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1146-1154 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.047662). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aurélie Desbrée, Mathieu Verdurand, Jeremy Godart, Albertine Dubois, Roland Mastrippolito, Frédéric Pain, Laurent Pinot, Thierry Delzescaux, Hirac Gurden, Luc Zimmer, and Philippe Lanièce

The Potential of a Radiosensitive Intracerebral Probe to Monitor ¹⁸F-MPPF Binding in Mouse Hippocampus In Vivo
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1155-1161 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.050047). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Konstantin Dobrenkov, Malgorzata Olszewska, Yury Likar, Larissa Shenker, Gertrude Gunset, Shangde Cai, Nagavarakishore Pillarsetty, Hedvig Hricak, Michel Sadelain, and Vladimir Ponomarev

Monitoring the Efficacy of Adoptively Transferred Prostate Cancer–Targeted Human T Lymphocytes with PET and Bioluminescence Imaging
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1162-1170 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.047324). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Data  

Mei-Ping Kung, Catherine Hou, Brian P. Lieberman, Shunichi Oya, Datta E. Ponde, Eric Blankemeyer, Daniel Skovronsky, Michael R. Kilbourn, and Hank F. Kung

In Vivo Imaging of β-Cell Mass in Rats Using ¹⁸F-FP-(+)-DTBZ: A Potential PET Ligand for Studying Diabetes Mellitus
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1171-1176 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.051680). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason S. Lewis, Richard Laforest, Farrokh Dehdashti, Perry W. Grigsby, Michael J. Welch, and Barry A. Siegel

An Imaging Comparison of ⁶⁴Cu-ATSM and ⁶⁰Cu-ATSM in Cancer of the Uterine Cervix
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1177-1182 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.051326). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takuma Mihara, Akihiro Noda, Hiroshi Arai, Kayoko Mihara, Akinori Iwashita, Yoshihiro Murakami, Takahiro Matsuya, Sosuke Miyoshi, Shintaro Nishimura, and Nobuya Matsuoka

Brain Adenosine A_2A Receptor Occupancy by a Novel A₁/A_2A Receptor Antagonist, ASP5854, in Rhesus Monkeys: Relationship to Anticataleptic Effect
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1183-1188 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.051474). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dnyanesh N. Tipre, James J. Fox, Daniel P. Holt, Gilbert Green, Jianhua Yu, Martin Pomper, Robert F. Dannals, and Frank M. Bengel

In Vivo PET Imaging of Cardiac Presynaptic Sympathoneuronal Mechanisms in the Rat
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1189-1195 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.050252). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Schlotmann, John H. Clorius, Wiltrud K. Rohrschneider, Sandra N. Clorius, Folker Amelung, and Kristianna Becker

Diuretic Renography in Hydronephrosis: Delayed Tissue Tracer Transit Accompanies Both Functional Decline and Tissue Reorganization
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1196-1203 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049890). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mats Bergstrom, Azita Monazzam, Pasha Razifar, Susan Ide, Raymond Josephsson, and Bengt Langstrom

Modeling Spheroid Growth, PET Tracer Uptake, and Treatment Effects of the Hsp90 Inhibitor NVP-AUY922
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1204-1210 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.050799). [Abstract] [Figures Only] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

Martin Allen-Auerbach

Sectional Anatomy: PET/CT and SPECT/CT
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1211 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.051557). [Full Text] [PDF]  

Osama Mawlawi

Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications
J Nucl Med 2008 49: 1212 (DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.051318). [Full Text] [PDF]  

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