The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM)
Editor-in-Chief
Johannes Czernin, MD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Immediate Past Editor
Dominique Delbeke, MD, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Associate Editors, Continuing Education
Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FACNM, FSNMMI
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Lale Kostakoglu, MD, MPH
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, VA
Associate Editors
Ramsey Derek Badawi, PhD
UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
Henryk Barthel, MD, PhD
Leipzig University
Leipzig, Germany
Frank M. Bengel, MD
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
Lisa Bodei, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Irene Buvat, PhD
UMR 1023 Inserm/CEA/Université Paris Sud - ERL 9218 CNRS
Paris, France
Jérémie Calais, MD, MS
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Sharmila Dorbala, MBBS
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Lexington, Massachusetts
Alexander E. Drzezga, MD
University Hospital of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Jan Grimm, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Ken Herrmann, MD, MBA
Universitatsklinikum Essen
Essen, Germany
Thomas A. Hope, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Jason S. Lewis, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
David A. Mankoff, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Heiko Schoder, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Wolfgang Andreas Weber, MD
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany
Series Editor, Focus on MI
Carolyn J. Anderson, PhD
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
Series Editor, Hot Topics
Heinrich R. Schelbert, MD, PhD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Nancy Knight, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Barry A. Siegel, MD
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
St. Louis, Missouri
Arnold M. Strashun, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York
H. William Strauss, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Associate Editors (International)
Gerald Antoch, MD
Dusseldorf University
Dusseldorf, Germany
Richard P. Baum, MD, PhD
Zentralklinik Bad Berka GmbH
Bad Berka, Germany
Ambros J. Beer, MD
Ulm University
Ulm, Germany
François Bénard, MD, FRCPC
British Columbia Cancer Agency
Vancouver, Canada
Thomas Beyer, PhD
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Andreas K. Buck, MD, PhD
Wurzburg, Germany
Ignasi Carrió, MD
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Barcelona, Spain
June-Key Chung, MD
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Seoul, Korea
Stefano Fanti, MD
Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi
Bologna, Italy
Marcus Hacker, MD
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Rodney J. Hicks, MD, FRACP
Peter MacCallan Cancer Institute
East Melbourne, Australia
Michael S. Hofman, MBBS, FRACP
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Victoria, Australia
Ora Israel, MD
Rambam Medical Center
Haifa, Israel
Andreas Kjaer, MD, PhD, DMSc
Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark
Adriaan A. Lammertsma, PhD
VU University Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michael Lassmann, PhD
University of Wuerzburg
Wuerzburg, Germany
Helmut R. Mäecke, PhD
Universitatsklinikum Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Wim J.G. Oyen, MD, PhD
Rijnstate
Arnhem, The Netherlands
John O. Prior, MD, PhD
CHUV University Hospital
Lausanne, Switzerland
Osman Ratib, MD, PhD
Geneva, Switzerland
Mike Sathekge, MD, M Med (Nuclear Medicine)
University of Pretoria & Steve Biko Academic Hospital
Pretoria, South Africa
Markus Schwaiger, MD
Technische Universitat Munchen
Munich, Germany
Andrew M. Scott, MB BS (Hons) MD FRACP DDU
Austin Health
Heidelberg, Australia
Nagara Tamaki, MD, PhD
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
Sapporo, Japan
Jia-He Tian, PhD
General Hospital of PLA
Beijing, China
Mei Tian, MD, MSc, PhD
The Second Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Hangzhou, China
Editorial Consultants
Martin S. Allen-Auerbach, MD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Magnus Dahlbom, PhD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Andrew Quon, MD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Christiaan Schiepers, MD, PhD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Daniel H. Silverman, MD, PhD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Roger Slavik, PhD
Winterthur, Switzerland
Editorial Board
Diane S. Abou, PhD
St. Louis, Missouri
Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar, MD
Dortmund, Germany
Valentina Ambrosini, MD, PhD
Bologna, Italy
Norbert Avril, MD
London, United Kingdom
Shadfar Bahri, MD
Los, Angeles California
Jacques Barbet, PhD
Saint-Herbalin, France
Bradley Jay Beattie, PhD
New York, New York
Matthias Richard Benz, MD
Los Angeles, California
Elie Besserer-Offroy, PhD, FACSc
Los Angeles, California
Pradeep Bhambhvani, MD
Birmingham, Alabama
Angelika Bischof-Delaloye, MD
Lausanne, Switzerland
Christina Bluemel, MD
Wurzburg, Germany
Ronald Boellaard, PhD
Groningen, The Netherlands
Nicolaas I. Bohnen, MD
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wesley E. Bolch, PhD
Gainesville, Florida
Elias H. Botvinick, MD
San Francisco, California
Winfried Brenner, MD, PhD
Berlin, Germany
Richard C. Brunken, MD
Cleveland, Ohio
Ralph Buchert, PhD
Berlin, Germany
Alfred Buck, MD
Menzingen, Switzerland
Denis B. Buxton, PhD
Bethesda, Maryland
Weibo Cai, PhD
Madison, Wisconsin
Federico Caobelli, MD, FEBNM
Basel, Switzerland
Giuseppe Carlucci, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Richard E. Carson, PhD
New Haven, Connecticut
Paolo Castellucci, MD
Bologna, Italy
Francesco Ceci, MD, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Juliano J. Cerci, MD, PhD
Curitiba, Brazil
Delphine L. Chen, MD
Seattle, Washington
Xiaoyuan Chen, PhD
Singapore
Simon R. Cherry, PhD
Davis, California
Arturo Chiti, MD
Rozzano, Italy
Peter M. Clark, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Christian Cohade, MD
Montreal, Canada
Ekaterina (Kate) Dadachova, PhD
Saskatoon, Canada
Issa J. Dahabreh, MD
Boston, Massachusetts
Heike Elisabeth Daldrup-Link, MD, PhD
Stanford, California
Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, PhD
Groningen, The Netherlands
Farrokh Dehdashti, MD
St. Louis, Missouri
Roberto C. Delgado-Bolton, MD PhD
Logroño, Spain
Thorsten Derlin, MD
Hannover, Germany
Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD
Boston, Massachusetts
David W. Dick, PhD
Iowa City, Iowa
Vasken Dilsizian, MD
Baltimore, Maryland
Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD
Philadelphia, PA
Janet F. Eary, MD
Seattle, Washington
W. Barry Edwards, PhD
Columbia, Missouri
Matthias Eiber, MD
Munich, Germany
David Eidelberg, MD
Manhasset, New York
Georges El Fakhri, PhD
Boston, MA
Peter J. Ell, MD
London, United Kingdom
Keigo Endo, MD
Nantan, Japan
Einat Even-Sapir, MD, PhD
Tel Aviv, Israel
Frederic H. Fahey, DSc
Boston, Massachusetts
Melpomeni Fani, MD, MSc.
Basel, Switzerland
Andrea Farolfi, MD
Bologna, Italy
Wolfgang Peter Fendler, MD
Munich, Germany
James W. Fletcher, MD
Indianapolis, Indiana
Amy M. Fowler, MD, PhD
Madison, Wisconsin
Kirk A. Frey, MD, PhD
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Andrei Gafita, MD
Los Angeles, California
Victor H. Gerbaudo, PhD, MSHCA
Boston, Massachusetts
Frederik L. Giesel, MD, PhD, MBA
Düsseldorf, Germany
Karolien Goffin, MD, PhD
Leuven, Belgium
Serge Goldman, MD, PhD
Brussels, Belgium
Stanley J. Goldsmith, MD
New York, New York
Martin Gotthardt, MD, PhD
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Michael M. Graham, PhD, MD
Iowa City, Iowa
David Groheux, MD, PhD
Paris, France
Uwe A. Haberkorn, MD
Heidelberg, Germany
Mathieu Hatt, Phd, HDR
Brest, France
Wolf-Dieter Heiss, MD
Cologne, Germany
Karl Herholz, MD
Manchester, United Kingdom
Thomas F. Heston, MD
Las Vegas, Nevada
John M. Hoffman, MD
Salt Lake City, Utah
Carl K. Hoh, MD
San Diego, California
Jason P. Holland, DPhil
Zurich, Switzerland
Roland Hustinx, MD, PhD
Liege, Belgium
Andrei H. Iagaru, MD
Stanford, California
Masanori Ichise, MD, FRCP
Chiba, Japan
Heather A. Jacene, MD
Boston, Massachusetts
François Jamar, MD, PhD
Brussels, Belgium
Jae Min Jeong, PhD
Seoul, Korea
John A. Katzenellenbogen, PhD
Urbana, Illinois
Zohar Keidar, MD, PhD
Haifa, Israel
Kimberly A. Kelly, PhD
Charlottesville, Virginia
Laura M. Kenny, MD, PhD
London, United Kingdom
Fabian Kiessling, MD
Aachen, Germany
E. Edmund Kim, MD, MS
Orange, California
Françoise Kraeber-Bodéré, MD, PhD
Nantes, France
Clemens Kratochwil, MD
Heidelberg, Germany
Kenneth A. Krohn, PhD
Seattle, Washington
Brenda F. Kurland, PhD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Constantin Lapa, MD
Augsburg, Germany
Suzanne E. Lapi, PhD
Birmingham, Alabama
Steven M. Larson, MD
New York, New York
Dong Soo Lee, MD, PhD, FACC
Seoul, Korea
Jeffrey Leyton, PhD
Sherbrooke, Canada
Xiang-Guo Li, PhD
Turku, Finland
Hannah M. Linden, MD
Seattle, Washington
Martin A. Lodge, PhD
Baltimore, Maryland
Katharina Lückerath, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Susanne Lütje, MD, PhD
Essen, Germany
Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts
H. Charles Manning, PhD
Nashville, Tennessee
Giuliano Mariani, MD
Pisa, Italy
Chester A. Mathis, PhD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Alan H. Maurer, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jonathan McConathy, MD, PhD
Birmingham, Alabama
Alexander J.B. McEwan, MD
Edmonton, Canada
Yusuf Menda, MD
Iowa City, Iowa
Philipp T. Meyer, MD, PhD
Freiburg, Germany
Matthias Miederer, MD
Mainz, Germany
Erik Mittra, MD, PhD
Portland, Oregon
Christine E. Mona, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Dae Hyuk Moon, MD
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Jennifer Murphy, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Helen Nadel, MD, FRCPC
Vancouver, Canada
Matthias Nahrendorf, MD, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts
Yuji Nakamoto, MD, PhD
Kyoto, Japan
David A. Nathanson, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Nghi C Nguyen, MD, PhD
Dallas, Texas
Sridhar Nimmagadda, PhD
Baltimore, Maryland
Egbert U. Nitzsche, MD, PhD
Aarua, Switzerland
Daniela E. Oprea-Lager, MD, PhD
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Medhat M. Osman, MD, ScM, PhD
Saint Louis, Missouri
Christopher J. Palestro, MD
New Hyde Park, New York
Miguel Hernandez, Pampaloni, MD, PhD
San Francisco, California
Neeta Pandit-Taskar, MD
New York, New York
Ashwin Singh Parihar, MBBS, MD
Saint Louis, Missouri
Michael E. Phelps, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Gerold Porenta, MD, PhD
Vienna, Austria
Sophie Poty, PhD
Montpellier, France
Edwin C. Pratt, PhD, MS Eng
New York, New York
Daniel A. Pryma, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Valery Radchenko, PhD
Vancouver, Canada
Caius G. Radu, MD
Los Angeles, California
Isabel Rauscher, MD
Munich, Germany
Nick S. Reed, MBBS
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Mark Rijpkema, PhD
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Steven P. Rowe, MD, PhD
Baltimore, Maryland
Mehran M. Sadeghi, MD
West Haven, Connecticut
Travis Shaffer, PhD
Stanford, California
Orazio Schillaci, MD
Rome, Italy
Charles Ross Schmidtlein, PhD
New York, New York
David M. Schuster, MD
Atlanta, Georgia
Sai Kiran Sharma, PhD
New York, New York
Anthony Shields, MD, PhD
Detroit, Michigan
Barry L. Shulkin, MD, MBA
Memphis, Tennessee
Yu Shyr, PhD
Nashville, Tennessee
Albert J. Sinusas, MD
New Haven, Connecticut
Riemer H.J.A. Slart, MD, PHD
Groningen, The Netherlands
Piotr J. Slomka, PhD, FACC
Los Angeles, California
Simon John Christoph Soerensen, MD
Stanford, California
Ida Sonni, MD
Los Angeles, California
Michael G. Stabin, PhD
Richland, Washington
Lisa J. States, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sven-Erik Strand, PhD
Lund, Sweden
Rathan M. Subramaniam, MD, PhD, MPH
Dunedin, New Zealand
John Sunderland, PhD
Iowa City, Iowa
Suleman Surti, PhD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Julie Sutcliffe, PhD
Sacramento, California
David Taieb, MD, PhD
Marseille, France
Laura H. Tang, MD, PhD
New York, New York
Ukihide Tateishi, MD, PhD
Tokyo, Japan
James T. Thackeray, PhD
Hannover, Germany
Mathew L. Thakur, PhD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alexander Thiel, MD
Montreal, Canada
Daniel L.J. Thorek, PhD
St. Louis, Missouri
David W. Townsend, PhD
Singapore
Timothy Turkington, PhD
Durham, North Carolina
Gary A. Ulaner, MD, PhD
Irvine, California
David Ulmert, MD, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Lena M. Unterrainer, MD, MHBA
Munich, Germany
Christopher H. van Dyck, MD
New Haven, Connecticut
Douglas Van Nostrand, MD
Washington, District of Columbia
Patrick Veit-Haibach, MD
Zurich, Switzerland
Nerissa Viola-Villegas, PhD
Detroit, Michigan
John R. Votaw, PhD
Atlanta, Georgia
Richard L. Wahl, MD
St. Louis, Missouri
Anne Marie Wallace, MD
La Jolla, California
Martin A. Walter, MD
Bern, Switzerland
Rudolf A. Werner, MD
Würzburg, Germany
Andreas G. Wibmer, MD
New York, New York
Anna M. Wu, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Randy Yeh, MD
New York, New York
Pat B. Zanzonico, PhD
New York, New York
Hyewon (Helen) Youn, PhD
Seoul, Korea
Brian M. Zeglis, PhD
New York, New York
Robert Zeiser, MD
Freiburg, Germany
Hong Zhang, MD, PhD
Hangzhou, China
Hongming Zhuang, MD, PhD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sibylle I. Ziegler, PhD
München, Germany
Harvey A. Ziessman, MD
Takoma Park, Maryland
Assistant to the Editor
Joshua N. Wachtel
SNMMI
Los Angeles, California
Associate Director of Communications
Susan Alexander
SNMMI
Reston, Virginia