Supplemental breast cancer screening: Fowler provides perspective on the advantages and challenges of molecular screening approaches, such as breast-specific γ-imaging, in women with increased breast cancer risk and previews a related article in this issue of JNM.
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c-MET visualization: Pool and colleagues look at promising approaches and tracers in development for PET and PET/CT imaging targeting c-MET–expressing tumors and introduce an article on this topic in this issue of JNM.
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90Y microspheres for colorectal metastases: Hickey and colleagues report on survival and safety outcomes in a large cohort of patients with colorectal liver metastases treated with glass-based 90Y microspheres.
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68Ga-alfatide II in NSCLC and TB: Kang and colleagues compare the diagnostic potential of this new RGD-based angiogenesis tracer with that of 18F-FDG in PET/CT differentiation of non–small cell lung cancer from lung tuberculosis.
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BSGI detection of breast cancer: Brem and colleagues look at increases in disease detection when breast-specific γ-imaging is used as an adjunct to mammography in women at increased risk for breast cancer.
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Thyroid cancer and breast cancer risk: Lin and colleagues investigate the risk of breast cancer in patients with thyroid cancer and include analyses of the effects of 131I treatment or nontreatment on this risk.
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PET and esophageal cancer response: van Rossum and colleagues determine whether subjective and quantitative assessment of baseline 18F-FDG PET can improve accuracy in predicting pathologic complete response to preoperative chemoradiotherapy in esophageal cancer.
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124I PET/CT and recurrent thyroid cancer: Kist and colleagues describe a prospective multicenter cohort study designed to test the hypothesis that 124I PET/CT can identify patients who will have tumor-negative 131I whole-body scintigraphy after 131I therapy.
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68Ga-DOTATATE toxicity and efficacy: Deppen and colleagues evaluate the safety and efficacy of 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT for diagnosis, staging, and restaging of pulmonary and gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and compare these results with those from 111In-pentetreotide imaging.
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GLP-1R PET/CT and insulinomas: Luo and colleagues compare the effectiveness of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor PET/CT using 68Ga-NOTA-exendin-4 with that of SPECT/CT, MR, and ultrasound imaging in detecting insulinoma in a prospective cohort of patients with endogenous hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia.
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18F-FCH PET/CT repeatability: Oprea-Lager and colleagues assess the repeatability of various semiquantitative 18F-fluoromethylcholine parameters in patients with histologically proven prostate cancer and lymphatic or hematogenous metastases.
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18F-FLT PET and lymphoma prognosis: Schöder and colleagues detail the abilities of 18F-FLT and 18F-FDG PET to predict clinical outcomes after R-CHOP-14 therapy in patients with advanced B-cell lymphoma.
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PET prediction in Ewing sarcoma: O and colleagues detail the prognostic value of early quantitative 18F-FDG PET in monitoring therapy with an antibody to the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor in patients with Ewing sarcoma–related disease.
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CXCR4 PET in solid cancers: Vag and colleagues report on the distribution and potential diagnostic value of a novel 68Ga-labeled chemokine receptor–targeted PET probe in patients with solid cancers with in vitro evidence of CXCR4 overexpression.
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Microfluidic preparation of 89Zr-trastuzumab: Wright and colleagues describe the design and evaluation of a microfluidic reactor capable of synthesizing a single clinical dose of 89Zr-labeled antibody.
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Lean body mass on PET/CT: Decazes and colleagues evaluate the reliability of a method for estimation of lean body mass for semiquantification of 18F-FDG uptake using data from low-dose CT from PET/CT acquired over standard acquisition fields.
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Dose deposits in micrometastases: Hindié and colleagues compare the effectiveness of 90Y, 177Lu, 111In, and 161Tb in irradiating micrometastases, using the Monte Carlo code CELLDOSE to assess electron doses in a range of spheres.
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c-MET imaging of locoregional recurrence: Arulappu and colleagues assess 18F-AH113804, a peptide-based molecular imaging agent with high affinity for human c-MET, in detection of early-stage locoregional recurrence in a human basal-like breast cancer model.
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Immuno-PET and ovarian cancer: Sharma and colleagues synthesize an 89Zr-labeled monoclonal antibody targeted to CA125 and evaluate PET imaging and biodistribution in mice bearing human ovarian adenocarcinoma xenografts.
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SV2A PET NHPs: Nabulsi and colleagues describe synthesis and characterization in nonhuman primates of a PET synaptic vesicle glycoprotein radiotracer with the potential to serve as a biomarker of synaptic density in neurodegenerative disorders.
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11C-PBR28 rat pharmacokinetics: Parente and colleagues evaluate this second-generation translocator protein tracer as a tool for detection and quantification of neuroinflammation in preclinical studies and compare its imaging properties with those of (R)-11C-PK11195.
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18F-THK5117 PET in transgenic mice: Brendel and colleagues visualize tau deposition in vivo with the 2-arylquinoline derivative 18F-THK5117 using small-animal PET in conjunction with autoradiography and immunohistochemistry in 2 transgenic mouse models expressing hyperphosphorylated tau.
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111In-exendin-3 for islet imaging: van der Kroon and colleagues explore imaging of transplanted islets in rats with a small-animal SPECT scanner and 111In-labeled exendin-3 to target the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor expressed on β-cells.
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Response evaluation with 99mTc-Duramycin: Elvas and colleagues report on a study designed to validate the use of 99mTc-labeled tetracycline hydrochloride for SPECT imaging of induction of cell death and early response of tumors to treatment.
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89Zr-AMG 110 PET: Warnders and colleague describe tumor targeting and tissue distribution with this radiolabeled antibody construct that induces T cell–mediated cell death by cross-linking the epithelial cell adhesion molecule with a cluster of differentiation on T cells.
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Spatial bias in brain PET/MR: Teuho and colleagues investigate spatial bias in brain PET/MR using an anthropomorphic brain phantom in 7 PET/MR and PET/CT systems at 4 institutions.
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