JNM Editors’ Choice Awards: Johannes Czernin recognizes outstanding contributions to JNM in 2023, as selected for awards at the upcoming SNMMI Annual Meeting.
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Discussions with leaders: Frederik (Freek) J. Beekman, PhD, distinguished inventor, entrepreneur, and professor of Applied Physics at the Technische Universiteit Delft, talks with Czernin and Mona about his career in academia and industry.
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Amyloid-β, tau, and F-DOPA PET: Burkett and colleagues offer an educational overview of visual interpretation of amyloid, tau, and dopaminergic PET images; their roles in the clinical context; and potential pitfalls in interpretation.
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18F-FET PET cost-effectiveness: Rosen and colleagues report on 18F-FET PET for treatment monitoring of multimodal therapy, including checkpoint inhibitors, targeted therapies, radiotherapy, and associated combinations, in patients with brain metastases secondary to melanoma or non–small cell lung cancer.
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PET/CT in oligometastatic breast cancer: Moser and colleagues assess the impact of 18F-FDG PET/CT on the definition of oligometastatic disease and detection of metastatic patterns in breast cancer, emphasizing the importance of standardizing imaging definitions.
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Predictive metabolic response in TKI therapy: Schuler and colleagues evaluate metabolic response on 18F-FDG PET after short-course osimertinib to identify lung cancer patients with resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors who will benefit from next-line osimertinib.
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CLDN18.2 molecular imaging in cancer: Qi and colleagues detail a first-in-human study of 68Ga-NC-BCH PET and its biodistribution, metabolism, dosimetry, safety, and potential for quantifying claudin-18 isoform 2 expression in gastrointestinal cancer patients.
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PET/MRI and methotrexate neurotoxicity: Baratto and colleagues use [18F]FDG PET/MRI to diagnose high-dose methotrexate–induced brain injury and correlate the results with cognitive impairment identified by neurocognitive testing in pediatric cancer survivors.
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68Ga-FAPI-46 in 18F-FDG–negative lung cancer: Röhrich and colleagues evaluate in lung cancer patients the diagnostic potential of static and dynamic 68Ga-FAPI-46 PET imaging in 18F-FDG–negative pulmonary lesions.
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68Ga-FAPI PET and FAP-RPT in sarcoma: Lanzafame and colleagues describe the diagnostic performance and accuracy of 68Ga-FAPI PET in patients with various bone and soft-tissue sarcomas, highlighting potential eligibility for FAP-targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy.
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FAPI PET/CT in genitourinary cancers: Hagens and colleagues conduct a systematic analysis of current literature on the utility of FAPI PET/CT for staging patients with genitourinary malignancies.
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Novel 68Ga-labeled PET/MRI in prostate cancer: Duan and colleagues assess in a phase II study the feasibility, safety, and diagnostic performance of 68Ga-NeoB and 68Ga-PSMA-R2 PET/MRI for detection of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer.
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PSMA PET/CT heterogeneity intensity score: Swiha and colleagues develop a simple, clinically applicable PSMA PET/CT score, encompassing the elements of SUVmean without additional quantification, for use in predicting response to 177Lu-PSMA therapy.
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Extended [177Lu]Lu-PSMA therapy: Seifert and colleagues investigate the safety and efficacy of extended [177Lu]Lu-PSMA radiopharmaceutical treatment in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have received more than 6 cycles.
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RECIP and progression-free survival prediction: Gafita and colleagues identify associations between interim PSMA PET/CT by Response Evaluation Criteria in Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Imaging 1.0 and short-term outcomes after radiopharmaceutical treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.
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[177Lu]Lu-DOTATATE absorbed dose–response: Hebert and colleagues explore how postinfusion dosimetry can influence clinical management by predicting efficacy and toxicity in [177Lu]Lu-DOTATATE treatment of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
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PAH for renal protection in PRRT: Moraitis and colleagues document the safety and efficacy of para-aminohippurate coinfusion as an alternative to amino acid coinfusion during peptide receptor radiotherapy in patients with neuroendocrine tumors.
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68Ga-FAP-2286 PET tumor dosimetry: Kline and colleagues detail the imaging characteristics of 68Ga-FAP-2286, present dosimetry analysis, and compare the agent with 18F-FDG and FAPI compounds.
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Quantitative SPECT prognosis in ATTR-CM: Caobelli and colleagues analyze the predictive and risk-stratifying value of quantitative [99mTc]Tc-DPD SPECT/CT in suspected and confirmed amyloid transthyretin–related cardiomyopathy at different disease stages.
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Tau PET in 4-repeat tauopathies: Bischof and colleagues report on the development and suitability of a technique for [18F]PI-2620 PET for tracking of disease progression in patients clinically diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy or cortical basal syndrome.
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Human brain [18F]VAT quantification: O’Donnell and colleagues characterize the distribution of this vesicular acetylcholine transporter–specific PET tracer in the brain and optimize methods for quantification in cholinergic pathways.
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Radiomics in cervical cancer: Collarino and colleagues investigate whether radiomic features extracted from pretreatment [18F]FDG PET can improve prediction of histopathologic tumor response and survival in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery.
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Bootstrapped kinetics of dynamic PET data: Wu and colleagues examine a nonparametric approach to mapping kinetic parameters and their uncertainties, using data from the emerging generation of dynamic whole-body PET/CT scanners.
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DL-based PVC: Leube and colleagues introduce, test, and validate a methodology for partial volume correction of 177Lu SPECT/CT imaging using deep learning.
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SSTR antagonists in Merkel cell cancer: Kircher and colleagues describe 68Ga-labeled somatostatin receptor antagonist PET/CT imaging in a patient with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma and discuss the potential of SSTR antagonist imaging for peptide receptor radionuclide therapy candidate selection.
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[18F]FES-avid irradiated lung: Rich and colleagues present a case study elucidating the nature of false-positive changes on [18F]FES PET/CT after pulmonary radiation in a patient with breast cancer and demonstrate an associated finding of [18F]FES-positive draining nodes.
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