Is tau upside-down 18F-FDG? van Eimeren and colleagues highlight areas in which tau imaging may offer additional clinical value to that of 18F-FDG PET in elucidating mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
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Pediatric PET/CT: Fahey and colleagues offer an educational overview of factors that affect CT radiation dose, ways that CT is used in the context of PET/CT, and approaches to integrating PET/CT and diagnostic CT in children.
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Optical imaging of human organoids: Walsh and colleagues describe primary tumor organoids as a model for use in cancer research and as a platform for drug screening with optical metabolic imaging, which can probe organoid cells for drug-resistant subpopulations.
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64Cu-DOTA-alendronate breast imaging: Ahrens and colleagues evaluate this tracer as a microcalcification-targeting PET imaging agent in a rat model, with a long-term goal of differentiating malignant from benign lesions.
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Brachytherapy with 90Y-polyoxazoline: Sano and colleagues report on brachytherapy using biocompatible, injectable thermoresponsive polymers that can self-aggregate above a specific transition temperature, resulting in long-term intratumoral retention of radioactivity.
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89Zr-DFO-AMG102 for HGF: Price and colleagues detail synthesis, radiolabeling, and in vitro and in vivo validation of this new immuno-PET imaging agent, which accumulates selectively in tumors with high local levels of hepatocyte growth factor protein.
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Cerenkov radiation–induced PIT: Nakamura and colleagues demonstrate the feasibility of using Cerenkov radiation generated by 18F-FDG accumulated in tumors to induce photoimmunotherapy.
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GRPR expression in breast cancer: Morgat and colleagues screen a large number of invasive breast cancers with immunohistochemistry for the presence and intensity of gastrin-releasing peptide receptor expression, a potentially valuable treatment target.
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99mTc-trofolastat SPECT/CT in PCa: Goffin and colleagues assess the SPECT performance of this small-molecule inhibitor of prostate-specific membrane antigen in patients with intermediate- and high-grade prostate cancer before radical prostatectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection.
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PET after anal cancer treatment: Houard and colleagues report on the relevance of 18F-FDG PET/CT as a strategy for response evaluation, including predictive value, after chemoradiation for anal cancer.
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PET/CT and immune checkpoint blockade: Cho and colleagues describe the utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging as an early predictor of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with advanced melanoma.
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Variability of response measurement: O and colleagues look at interobserver variability in quantitative 18F-FDG PET/CT parameters used in assessments of oncologic treatment response across multiple sites and readers.
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SSTR antagonists: Nicolas and colleagues investigate the biodistribution, pharmacokinetics, SPECT/CT characteristics, and dosimetry of a somatostatin receptor 2 antagonist labeled with 177Lu, 90Y, and 111In and compare these with 177Lu-DOTATATE.
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PSMA therapeutics: Kelly and colleagues report on new dual-target small molecules with high-affinity targeting to prostate cancer cells through interaction with prostate-specific membrane antigen and moderate affinities for albumin, with potential for use in targeted α-therapy.
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Perspective on 68Ga-DOTATOC imaging: Mailman provides retrospective highlights and a patient’s viewpoint on development of PET/CT imaging in neuroendocrine tumor therapy and introduces an article on this topic in this issue of JNM.
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68Ga-DOTATOC imaging: Graham and colleagues report on the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of this somatostatin receptor–targeted ligand for several distinct indications, with data in support of U.S. FDA approval.
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Predictive CZT SPECT: Engbers and colleagues determine the prognostic value of myocardial perfusion imaging with a cadmium-zinc-telluride SPECT camera in a large cohort of patients with suspected coronary artery disease.
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Initial evaluation of 11C-preladenant: Sakata and colleagues describe first-in-human studies of safety, radiation dosimetry, and imaging with this selective antagonist for mapping of cerebral adenosine A2A receptors with PET.
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Impaired CSF clearance in AD: de Leon and colleagues use dynamic PET with 18F‐THK5117, a tracer for tau pathology, to estimate ventricular cerebrospinal fluid time–activity as a biomarker for CSF clearance in Alzheimer disease.
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TSPO PET in MS: Datta and colleagues use PET with translocator protein radioligands to assess microglial activation in lesions and in normal-appearing white matter in patients with multiple sclerosis.
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AV45 kinetic modeling vs. static imaging: Ottoy and colleagues compare the SUV ratio method for 18F-AV45 uptake quantitation on PET with the gold standard volume of distribution to assess differences in plaque load in elderly patients.
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PET and anticonvulsant-induced cognitive impairment: Zhu and colleagues explore correlations between monoamine receptor PET imaging and additional imaging and clinical assessments in patients after anticonvulsant therapies, emphasizing the role of monoamine receptor dysfunction in anticonvulsant-induced cognitive impairment.
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18F-THK-5351 radiation dosimetry: Hsiao and colleagues estimate in humans the radiation dose of this novel radiotracer with high binding selectivity for tau and compare clinical radiation dosimetry results with previous preclinical data.
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PET/CT in S. aureus bacteremia: Berrevoets and colleagues investigate the utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, with a focus on detection of metastatic infection and consequences for treatment and outcome.
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Next-generation PET/CT system: Hsu and colleagues detail system performance studies for the Discovery MI PET/CT system, a new time-of-flight system based on silicon photomultipliers.
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PET/MR for oncologic brain imaging: Rausch and colleagues compare standard MR-based attenuation correction for PET/MR imaging with a model-based approach for the Siemens mMR PET/MR system.
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