Discussions with leaders: JNM editor in chief, Johannes Czernin, MD, conducts an interview with Hedvig Hricak on her experience as a long-time department chair and solicits her perspective on leadership, technologic innovation, and the future of nuclear medicine.
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AI in nuclear cardiology: Gomez and Doukky provide perspective on the potential for artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, in enhancing risk prediction in nuclear cardiology.
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Dedicated brain PET: Catana offers a state-of-the-art overview of current PET devices specifically designed for imaging the human brain, including performance characteristics, inclusion of other modalities, and goals for future-generation instrumentation.
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18F-FET PET after brain tumor surgery: Marner and colleagues ask whether additional postoperative 18F-FET PET in children and adolescents with brain tumors can improve diagnostic accuracy for residual tumor compared with MR imaging.
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82Rb PET/CT in prostate cancer: Jochumsen and colleagues evaluate 82Rb PET/CT as a diagnostic tool for quantitative tumor blood flow imaging in prostate cancer patients and as a noninvasive biomarker for tumor aggressiveness and monitoring in nonmetastatic prostate cancer.
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Imaging biomarkers for 90Y distribution: Schobert and colleagues identify baseline imaging features in patients with liver cancer that correlate with 90Y distribution on postprocedural SPECT and predict tumor response to transarterial radioembolization.
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Intraperitoneal 211At in ovarian cancer: Hallqvist and colleagues present clinical outcomes and toxicity data in a long-term follow-up of a phase I trial with intraperitoneal α-particle therapy in epithelial ovarian cancer.
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PET/MRI repeatability in pelvic tumors: Fraum and colleagues determine the test–retest repeatability of PET/MR imaging SUV and apparent diffusion coefficient metrics in solid tumors of the pelvis and compare these results with those from PET/CT.
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Whole-body PET in pediatric lymphoma: Cerci and colleagues assess the incidence and clinical impact of lesions outside the “eyes to thighs” field of view in 18F-FDG PET/CT staging and interim scans in pediatric lymphoma patients.
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Metabolic tumor volume in lymphoma: Gallamini provides a brief road map for validation and standardization of metabolic tumor volume computation and previews a relevant article in this issue of JNM.
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Standardized MTV measurement: Barrington and Meignan report on discussions from the PET International Lymphoma and Myeloma Workshop and offer a proposal for performance of technical validation of metabolic tumor volume measurement to enable benchmark reference ranges.
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Molecular imaging of nimotuzumab ADCs: Hartimath and colleagues use small-animal SPECT/CT and ex vivo distribution studies of antibody drug conjugates with PEGylated-maytansine to provide insights for evaluation of pharmacokinetics and normal tissue toxicity to determine dosing rates.
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Healthy tissue and PCa PET tracers: Jansen and colleagues quantify uptake variability of prostate cancer tracers, including 68Ga-PSMA, 18F-DCFPyL, 18F-FCH, and 18F-FDHT, in healthy tissues and identify stable reference regions for PET interpretation.
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PSMA PET/MR in recurrent PCa after HIFU: Burger and colleagues investigate whether 68Ga-PSMA-11 can be used to localize recurrent disease with PET/MR in patients with discrepant findings after high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment for prostate cancer.
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MC1R-targeted α-particle therapy: Tafreshi and colleagues report on preclinical development and testing of a novel melanocortin 1 receptor–targeted radiopharmaceutical, 225Ac-DOTA-MC1RL, for α-particle therapy of uveal melanoma.
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Perfusion scintigraphy in PE follow-up: Marconi and colleagues look at changes in pulmonary perfusion at 4 follow-up points within 1 y in patients with pulmonary embolism and elucidate factors predictive of complete or incomplete recovery of perfusion.
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11β-HSD1–targeted brain imaging: Gallezot and colleagues detail the results of studies with 11C-AS2471907 PET to image 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme availability in the human brain.
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M1 mAChR PET imaging in NHPs: Nabulsi and colleagues report on the synthesis and evaluation of 11C-LSN3172176, targeting the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor, with PET imaging in nonhuman primates.
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18F-JNJ-64413739 P2X7 PET: Kolb and colleagues describe in vitro and in vivo preclinical studies with this 18F-labeled PET ligand for imaging the P2X7 receptor in the brain.
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18F-labeled PSMA ligands: Kuo and colleagues evaluate a series of prostate-specific membrane–targeting probes and label them with 18F in a single step for PET imaging of prostate cancer.
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GluN2B and σ1R PET: Haider and colleagues investigate the performance characteristics of the enantiomers of 11C-Me-NB1, a recently reported PET imaging probe that targets the glutamate N2B subunit of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors.
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FcγRI binding and immuno-PET: Vivier and colleagues determine whether radioimmunoconjugates with truncated glycans exhibit altered binding to immune cells bearing Fc-γ-receptors and, in turn, improve in vivo performance on antibody-targeted PET imaging.
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Deep learning in WB ToF PET/MRI: Hwang and colleagues propose a new deep learning–based approach to provide more accurate whole-body time-of-flight PET/MRI attenuation correction than is possible with the Dixon-based 4-segment method.
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