Discussions with leaders: Jadvar talks with Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, Dean of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, about her career in academic radiology and institutional leadership.
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PET Braak staging in AD: Macedo and colleagues summarize current efforts to implement Braak staging of Alzheimer disease using PET and assess correspondence between Braak histopathologic descriptions and PET AD biomarkers.
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Tracking environmental pollutants: Delaney and colleagues focus on the potential roles of molecular imaging and radiochemistry in characterizing the pharmacokinetic profiles of pollutants at environmentally relevant doses.
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SSTR PET in meningioma: Milosevic and colleagues report on institutional experience with somatostatin receptor–targeted [68Ga]-DOTATOC PET/MRI in suspected or diagnosed meningiomas and compare results with those from conventional MRI.
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SUVmax and CUP: Zaun and colleagues identify an SUVmax threshold on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging as a favorable prognostic factor at initial diagnostic workup in patients with cancer of unknown primary.
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Metformin and membrane HER: Panikar and colleagues use human epidermal growth factor receptor–targeted PET to study antibody–tumor binding in mice treated with metformin, with implications for both cancer imaging and therapy.
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Host–guest chemistry and pretargeted PET: Jallinoja and colleagues describe a cucurbituril host and adamantane guest molecule pairing for antibody-based pretargeted PET in both in vitro and preclinical studies.
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68Ga-FAPI-RGD PET: Zhao and colleagues evaluate the clinical cancer imaging characteristics of a 68Ga-labeled heterodimer recognizing both fibroblast-activation protein and integrin αvβ3.
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Oncologic FAPI PET/CT: Wass and colleagues provide a systematic review and metaanalysis to assess the diagnostic performance of fibroblast-activation protein inhibitor PET/CT in comparison with [18F]FDG PET/CT.
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[18F]FAPI-74 oncologic PET: Watabe and colleagues detail the diagnostic performance of [18F]-labeled fibroblast-activation protein inhibitor-74 PET in patients with various histopathologically confirmed cancers or suspected malignancies.
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[68Ga]FAPI-46 PET in pancreatic tumors: Rasinski and colleagues assess the diagnostic accuracy of [68Ga]-fibroblast activation protein inhibitor-46 PET/CT in pancreatic cancer and look at data needed to verify that this technique improves characterization of equivocal lesions.
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PSMA PET/CT in unfavorable PCa: Hagens and colleagues determine the diagnostic value of PSMA PET/CT in staging men with newly diagnosed and unfavorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer.
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[177Lu]-PSMA RLT in elderly patients: Tauber and colleagues analyze the efficacy and safety of PSMA radioligand therapy in octogenarian patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, including data on response and toxicity rates and on predictors of survival.
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TheraP PSMA PET eligibility criteria: Karimzadeh and colleagues evaluate outcomes for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with PSMA radioligand therapy, focusing on comparisons with TheraP and TheraP-based PET inclusion criteria.
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Reader agreement VISION substudy: Kuo and colleagues research interreader variability and intrareader reproducibility of visual assessments of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT scans using the VISION trial read criteria, looking at agreement with VISION study results.
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177Lu-PSMA RLT in treatment-naïve mCRPC: Satapathy and colleagues explore the impact of prior taxane chemotherapy on response and survival outcomes after [177Lu]Lu-PSMA radioligand therapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
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BMI and overall survival in PSMA RLT: Hartrampf and colleagues investigate fat-related and body composition parameters in patients undergoing PSMA-directed radioligand therapy to assess associated predictive values for overall survival.
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Fibroblast activation in TAVR candidates: Diekmann and colleagues use multimodal imaging, including 68Ga-fibroblast activation protein inhibitor-46 PET, to determine the extent and functional correlates of myocardial fibroblast activation in patients with aortic stenosis scheduled for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
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PET/CT in hyperglycemia and infection: Pijl and colleagues describe the effects of blood glucose levels on the performance of 18F-FDG PET/CT for detecting infection foci in patients with bacteremia.
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Comparative evaluation of MIRDcalc: Carter and colleagues report on validation of this internal dosimetry software and provide a compendium of radiopharmaceutical dose coefficients obtained with MIRDcalc.
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Facial anonymization and total-body PET: Selfridge and colleagues detail development of a workflow that obscures a subject’s face in 3-dimensional volumetric data, with validation in total-body PET/CT imaging.
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PET and opioid release after orgasm: Jern and colleagues use [11C]carfentanil PET and PET/MRI to test the hypothesis that sexual arousal peaking in orgasm leads to endogenous opioid release in men.
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[18F]FASu and [18F]FSPG: Colovic and colleagues report on a comparison of these amino acid radiopharmaceuticals targeting system , a PET biomarker for oxidative stress, including uptake specificity and ability to image glioma and lung cancer xenografts in vivo.
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161Tb-PSMA SPECT/CT: Al-Ibraheem and colleagues present whole-body scintigraphic and SPECT/CT images acquired with this promising agent in a case of metastatic prostate cancer refractory to hormonal therapy and chemotherapy referred for PSMA radioligand treatment.
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