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
Newsline Editor
Harvey A. Ziessman, MD
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
Heiko Schoder, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
H. William Strauss, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
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
Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Michael M. Graham, PhD, MD
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Jan Grimm, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Ken Herrmann, MD
Universitatsklinikum Essen
Essen, Germany
Lale Kostakoglu, MD, MPH
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York
Jason S. Lewis, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
David Mankoff, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wolfgang 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
Series Editor, Challenging Case Studies
Jérémie Calais, MD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Consulting Editors
Nancy Knight, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Barry A. Siegel, MD
St. Louis, Missouri
Arnold M. Strashun, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, 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
Francois Benard, MD, FRCPC
British Columbia Cancer Agency
Vancouver, Canada
Thomas Beyer, PhD
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Andreas K. Buck, MD
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
Alexander E. Drzezga, MD
Cologne, Germany
Stefano Fanti, MD
Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi
Bologna, Italy
Markus Hacker, MD
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Rodney J. Hicks, MD
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, Netherlands
Michael Lassmann, PhD
University of Wuerzburg
Wuerzburg, Germany
Helmut R. Maecke, 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
Andrew M. Scott, MD
Austin Health
Heidelberg, Australia
Markus Schwaiger, MD
Technische Universitat Munchen
Munich, Germany
Nagara Tamaki, MD, PhD
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
Sapporo, Japan
Jiahe Tian
General Hospital of PLA
Beijing, China
Mei Tian, MD, MSc, PhD
The Second Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Hangzhou, China
Editorial Consultants
Hans-Jurgen Wester, PhD
Technische Universitat Munchen
Munich, Germany
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
Editorial Board
Diane S. Abou-Thorek, PhD
St. Louis, Missouri
Valentina Ambrosini, MD, PhD
Bologna, Italy
Norbert Avril, MD
London, United Kingdom
Jacques Barbet, PhD
Nantes, France
Bradley Jay Beattie, PhD
New York, New York
Matthias Richard Benz, MD
Basel, Switzerland
Pradeep Bhambhvani, MD
Birmingham, Alabama
Angelika Bischof-Delaloye, MD
Lausanne, Switzerland
Christina Bluemel, MD
Wurzburg, Germany
Ronald Boellaard, PhD
Groningen, Netherlands
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
Zurich, Switzerland
Denis B. Buxton, PhD
Bethesda, Maryland
Weibo Cai, PhD
Madison, Wisconsin
Federico Caobelli, MD
Basel, Switzerland
Richard E. Carson, PhD
New Haven, Connecticut
Paolo Castellucci, MD
Bologna, Italy
Franscesco Ceci, MD, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Juliano J. Cerci, MD, PhD
Curitiba, Brazil
Delphine Chen, MD
Seattle, Washington
Xiaoyuan Chen, PhD
Bethesda, Maryland
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, MS
Providence, Rhode Island
Elisabeth Daldrup-Link, MD, PhD
Stanford, California
Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, PhD
Groningen, Netherlands
Farrokh Dehdashti, MD
St. Louis, Missouri
Robert C. Delgado-Bolton, MD, PhD
Logroño, Spain
Thorsten Derlin, MD
Hannover, Germany
David Dick, PhD
Iowa City, Iowa
Vasken Dilsizian, MD
Baltimore, Maryland
Sharmila Dorbala, MBBS
Lexington, Massachusetts
Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD
Philadelphia, PA
Janet F. Eary, MD
Seattle, Washington
W. Barry Edwards, PhD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
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
Victor H. Gerbaudo, PhD, MSHCA
Boston, Massachusetts
Frederik L. Giesel, MD, PhD, MBA
Heidelberg, Germany
Serge Goldman, MD, PhD
Brussels, Belgium
Stanley J. Goldsmith, MD
New York, New York
Martin Gotthardt, MD, PhD
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
David Groheux, MD, PhD
Paris, France
Uwe A. Haberkorn, MD
Heidelberg, Germany
Mathieu Hatt, PhD
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
Thomas A. Hope, MD
San Francisco, California
Roland Hustinx, MD, PhD
Liege, Belgium
Andrei H. Iagaru, MD
Stanford, California
Masanori Ichise, MD
Chiba, Japan
Heather A. Jacene, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts
Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Francois Jamar, MD
Brussels, Belgium
Jae Min Jeong, PhD
Seoul, Korea
John A. Katzenellenbogen, PhD
Urbana, Illinois
Kimberly A. Kelly, PhD
Charlottesville, Virginia
Laura Kenny, MD, PhD
London, United Kingdom
Fabian Kiessling, MD
Aachen, Germany
E. Edmund Kim, MD
Orange, California
Francoise 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
Würzburg, Germany
Suzanne Lapi, PhD
Birmingham, Alabama
Steven M. Larson, MD
New York, New York
Dong Soo Lee, MD, PhD
Seoul, Korea
Jeffrey Leyton, PhD
Sherbrooke, Canada
Hannah M. Linden, MD
Seattle, Washington
Martin A. Lodge, PhD
Baltimore, Maryland
Egesta Lopci, MD, PhD
Milan, Italy
Katharina Lückerath, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Susanne Lutje, MD, PhD
Essen, Germany
Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts
H. Charles Manning, PhD
Nashville, Tennessee
Giuliano Mariani, MD
Pisa, Italy
Chester 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
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
Vancouver, Canada
Matthias Nahrendorf, MD, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts
Yuji Nakamoto, MD, PhD
Kyoto, Japan
David A. Nathanson, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Sridhar Nimmagadda, PhD
Baltimore, Maryland
Egbert U. Nitzsche, MD, PhD
Aarua, Switzerland
Medhat M. Osman, MD, 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
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael E. Phelps, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Gerold Porenta, MD, PhD
Vienna, Austria
Sophie Poty, PhD
Montpellier, France
Edwin (Chuck) Pratt, 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, Netherlands
Steven P. Rowe, MD, PhD
Baltimore, Maryland
Mehran Sadeghi, MD
West Haven, Connecticut
Travis Schaffer, 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 Slart, MD, PhD
Groningen, Netherlands
Roger Slavik, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Piotr Slomka, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Ida Sonni, MD
Los Angeles, California
Michael Stabin, PhD
Richland, Washington
Lisa J. States, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sven-Erik Strand, PhD
Lund, Sweden
Rathan M. Subramaniam, MD, PhD, MPH
Dallas, Texas
John Sunderland, PhD
Iowa City, Iowa
Suleman Surti, PhD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Julie Sutcliffe, PhD
Sacramento, California
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 Thorek, PhD
Baltimore, Maryland
David W. Townsend, PhD
Singapore
Timothy Turkington, PhD
Durham, North Carolina
Gary A. Ulaner, MD, PhD
New York, New York
David Ulmert, MD, PhD
New York, New York
Christopher H. van Dyck, MD
New Haven, Connecticut
Douglas Van Nostrand, MD
Washington, District of Columbia
Patrick Veit-Haibach, MD
Zurich, Switzerland
Nerissa Villegas, PhD
New York, New York
John R. Votaw, PhD
Atlanta, Georgia
Richard L. Wahl, MD, PhD
St. Louis, Missouri
Ann Marie Wallace, MD
La Jolla, California
Martin A. Walter, MD
Bern, Switzerland
Rudi Werner, MD
Hannover, 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, PhD
Hangzhou, China
Hongming Zhuang, MD, PhD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sibylle I. Ziegler, PhD
München, Germany
Assistant to the Editor
Joshua N. Wachtel
SNMMI
Los Angeles, California
Associate Director of Communications
Susan Alexander
SNMMI
Reston, Virginia