18F-FDG PET SUV repeatability: Lodge reviews available data on repeatability metrics, relative units, log transformation, and asymmetric limits of repeatability in 18F-FDG SUV assessment.
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Metabolic imaging of glutamine: Zhu and colleagues provide an overview of the potential utility of 11C- and 18F-labeled glutamine tracers for targeting in vivo metabolism of glutamine in cancer cells.
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Imaging human immune checkpoints: Mayer and colleagues optimize noninvasive immuno-PET imaging of human programmed death-ligand 1 expression in a preclinical mode, using a small high-affinity engineered protein scaffold.
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Bimodal molecular imaging: Lee and colleagues test the ability of a laparoscopic camera system to detect fluorescent signal emanating from sentinel lymph nodes 2 d after injection of fluorescent-tagged tilmanocept radiolabeled with both 68Ga and 99mTc.
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18F-FHNP for ERβ expression: Antunes and colleagues report on synthesis and in vitro and in vivo evaluations of a potential estrogen receptor isoform β–selective PET tracer.
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18F-FES PET in breast cancer: Fowler and Linden offer background and perspective on an article in this issue of JNM on 18F-FES PET/CT prediction of pathologic response to neoadjuvant therapy in patients with estrogen receptor–positive primary breast tumors.
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18F-FES PET in ER-rich breast cancer: Chae and colleagues investigate the ability of 18F-fluoroestradiol PET/CT imaging to predict pathologic response to neoadjuvant therapy in postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor–rich breast cancer.
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Radiomics and somatic mutations: Yip and colleagues assess associations (including predictive utility) between 18F-FDG PET–based radiomic features and somatic mutations in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
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PET/CT, timing, and pediatric HL: Bakhshi and colleagues report on the significance of interim and end-of-treatment 18F-FDG PET/CT in children with Hodgkin lymphoma, including comparisons with conventional contrast-enhanced CT and Deauville 5-point response assessment.
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18F-FET PET in brain mets: Unterrainer and colleagues detail 18F-FET uptake characteristics on PET imaging in patients with newly diagnosed and untreated brain metastases and describe potential utility in treatment response assessment.
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Evans blue–based theranostics: Chen and colleagues detail development of an “add-on” molecule containing a truncated Evans blue dye molecule for prolonged half-life, a metal chelate for radiolabeling in imaging and radiotherapy, and maleimide for conjugation to drug molecules.
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α-RIT cure of xenografts: Bäck and colleagues explore the influence of targeted 211At-radioimmunotherapy on macrotumor treatment, long-term toxicity, and survival in an ovarian cancer mouse model.
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PET/CT MPI and radiation damage: Song and colleagues determine the potential value of 13N-ammonia PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging for early detection of perfusion changes induced by radiation damage.
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Quantitative small-animal PET: Huang and colleagues demonstrate in a physiologically stable rat model the feasibility of quantitative small-animal 18F-FDG PET by repeated imaging to monitor the time course of variations in the cerebral metabolic rate of glucose utilization.
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Small-animal PET and HD: Häggkvist and colleagues use a recently reported mouse model in small-animal PET imaging with a range of radioligands to characterize the progression of molecular targets associated with Huntington disease.
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Tau quantification with 18F-AV1451: Hahn and colleagues outline different strategies for quantification of 18F-AV1451 tau binding, including models with blood sampling and noninvasive alternatives, with potential for applications in neurodegenerative disease.
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18F-FDG PET in PCA and DLB: Whitwell and colleagues determine whether patterns of hypometabolism or the cingulate island sign differ in patients with clinically diagnosed posterior cortical atrophy or probable dementia with Lewy bodies.
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Prediction of Aβ accumulation: Guo and colleagues investigate whether regional patterns of longitudinal β-amyloid accumulation can be predicted by baseline amyloid 18F-florbetapir PET imaging in patients with incipient and manifest dementia associated with Alzheimer disease.
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Hybrid detection modalities: KleinJan and colleagues describe clinical applications of 2 configurations, each of which combines γ-detection and an open surgery fluorescence camera, in guiding sentinel node biopsy with an indocyanine green–99mTc-nanocolloid.
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Clustering of dynamic PET tumor images: Katiyar and colleagues devise and validate an unsupervised segmentation algorithm for assessment of tumor heterogeneity using dynamic 18F-FDG PET.
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90Y PET/CT image reconstruction with BPL: Rowley and colleagues evaluate new reconstruction software using a Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction algorithm in phantom and patient PET scans after selective internal radiotherapy.
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99mTc-duramycin SPECT and therapy response: Elvas and colleagues compare the predictive power of cell death imaging using 99mTc-duramycin SPECT with the current gold standard 18F-FDG PET for treatment response evaluation after targeted therapy.
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PET imaging of αvβ6 integrin: Notni and colleagues describe preclinical PET imaging of the cellular transmembrane receptor αvβ6 integrin using 68Ga-labeled nonapeptides, with a wide range of potential clinical utilities.
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ABCB1 function at blood–retina barrier: Bauer and colleagues assess P-glycoprotein transport activity at the human blood–retina barrier using (R)-11C-verapamil PET.
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