Discussions with leaders: Johannes Czernin, MD, talks with Hong Wu, MD, PhD, professor and dean of the School of Life Sciences and a senior investigator of the Peking–Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at Peking University.
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FAPI review: Hicks and colleagues look at the development of and preliminary clinical data on various fibroblast-activation protein–specific small-molecule inhibitor tracers in oncologic and potential nononcologic applications.
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Phantom preparation: Lodge emphasizes the importance of reliable phantom preparation in PET methodology research, performance assessment, and routine quality assurance and describes an existing dilution technique that can simplify the process.
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Nuclear medicine in hyperthyroidism: Mariani and colleagues provide the first in a series on the role of nuclear medicine in clinical management of benign thyroid disorders, which constitute most diseases affecting the thyroid gland.
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Melanoma imaging and therapy: Miao and Quinn focus on preclinical and clinical advances in melanocortin-1 receptor– and very late antigen-4–targeted radiolabeled peptides and peptide-conjugated C′ dots for melanoma imaging and therapy.
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18F-FDOPA and MRI in glioma: Tatekawa and colleagues identify correlations between PET 18F-FDOPA uptake and physiologic MRI, including relative cerebral blood volume and apparent diffusion coefficient, in gliomas with different molecular subtypes.
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18F-FES vs. 18F-FDG in ILC: Ulaner and colleagues detail head-to-head comparison of 18F-FDG and 18F-FES in PET/CT assessment of patients with metastatic invasive lobular carcinoma.
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MTV segmentation in DLBCL: Barrington and colleagues evaluate the optimal automated metabolic tumor volume workflow in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, assess factors influencing the success of segmentation, and report on the discriminatory power of segmentation methods.
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PET criteria in HL relapse: Kluge and colleagues compare interim PET responses to second- and first-line treatment in classic Hodgkin lymphoma as part of development of response criteria for relapsed or progressive disease.
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Fluorescence-guided surgery in sarcomas: Steinkamp and colleagues determine the feasibility, safety, and optimal dose of bevacizumab-800CW for fluorescence-guided surgery in soft-tissue sarcoma, including in vivo and ex vivo tumor detection.
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PET/MRI in isolated limb perfusion: Chodyla and colleagues evaluate and compare the clinical utility of simultaneously obtained quantitative 18F-FDG PET and diffusion-weighted MRI datasets for predicting histopathologic response of soft-tissue sarcoma to neoadjuvant isolated limb perfusion.
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uPAR PET/MRI in prostate cancer: Fosbøl and colleagues assess correlations between uptake of the PET ligand 68Ga-NOTA-AE105, targeting the urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor, and Gleason scores in patients undergoing prostate biopsy.
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99mTc-PHC-102 in renal cell carcinoma: Kulterer and colleagues describe the targeting performance of this radiolabeled derivative of acetazolamide in SPECT imaging in patients with renal cell carcinoma, including safety and tolerability data.
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Immuno-PET and response to therapy: Pereira and colleagues investigate the utility of receptor tyrosine kinase–targeted immuno-PET to annotate changes in multi-RTK tumor cell expression levels in response to targeted therapies.
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Imaging lymphoma with F(ab′)2 fragments: Kang and colleagues report on development of 64Cu-labeled F(ab′)2 fragments of obinutuzumab for imaging CD20 in lymphoma xenograft tumor models.
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DNA damage in 177Lu therapy: Ritt and colleagues compare excess radiation-induced foci and other factors side by side in recipients of 177Lu-DOTATOC or 177Lu-prostate-specific membrane antigen-617 radioligands.
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177Lu-DOTA-EB-TATE therapy in NETs: Liu and colleagues report on the safety and efficacy of multiple cycles of 177Lu-DOTA-Evans blue-TATE peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) at escalating doses in neuroendocrine tumors.
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Preclinical 177Lu-DOTA-JR11 assessment: Albrecht and colleagues evaluate peptide-receptor radionuclide therapy with somatostatin receptor agonist 177Lu-DOTATOC and antagonist 177Lu-DOTA-JR11 with PET/MRI and SPECT/CT in an orthotopic murine pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm model expressing human SSTR2.
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PE imaging in asthma: Lazarus and colleagues look at the diagnostic performance of pulmonary embolism imaging with ventilation–perfusion scanning or CT pulmonary angiography in patients with a history of asthma.
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Early lung perfusion changes in HIV: Kohli and colleagues investigate pulmonary perfusion and ventilation using 13NN-saline PET/CT imaging in smokers and nonsmokers living with HIV.
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Nondisplaceable binding in TSPO PET: Laurell and colleagues use a recently developed method for simultaneous estimation of nondisplaceable-binding distribution volume to disentangle its contributions from ligand-specific distribution volume in 11C-PBR28 PET studies.
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11C-UCB-J SUVR in humans: Naganawa and colleagues detail simplification of the protocol for this PET tracer through comparison of SUV ratios with model-based nondisplaceable-binding potential to derive optimal imaging time windows in healthy and neuropsychiatric subjects.
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Global radiopharmaceutical availability: Cutler and colleagues from the Nuclear Medicine Global Initiative report on the results of a survey designed to explore issues affecting international access and availability of radiopharmaceuticals.
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