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EJNMMI Research

Ausgabe 1/2017

Inhalt (103 Artikel)

Open Access Original research

Three-minute SPECT/CT is sufficient for the assessment of bone metastasis as add-on to planar bone scintigraphy: prospective head-to-head comparison to 11-min SPECT/CT

Helle D. Zacho, José A. Biurrun Manresa, Ramune Aleksyniene, June A. Ejlersen, Joan Fledelius, Henrik Bertelsen, Lars J. Petersen

Open Access Preliminary research

Hepatobiliary scintigraphy may improve radioembolization treatment planning in HCC patients

Manon N. G. J. A. Braat, Hugo W. de Jong, Beatrijs A. Seinstra, Mike V. Scholten, Maurice A. A. J. van den Bosch, Marnix G. E. H. Lam

Open Access Original research

Patient-specific optimisation of administered activity and acquisition times for 18F-FDG PET imaging

Fred Wickham, Helena McMeekin, Maria Burniston, Daniel McCool, Deborah Pencharz, Annah Skillen, Thomas Wagner

Open Access Original research

Blood perfusion in osteomyelitis studied with [15O]water PET in a juvenile porcine model

Lars Jødal, Ole L. Nielsen, Pia Afzelius, Aage K. O. Alstrup, Søren B. Hansen

Open Access Original research

Comparison of Tc-99m maraciclatide and Tc-99m sestamibi molecular breast imaging in patients with suspected breast cancer

Michael K. O’Connor, Melissa M. B. Morrow, Katie N. Hunt, Judy C. Boughey, Dietlind L. Wahner-Roedler, Amy Lynn Conners, Deborah J. Rhodes, Carrie B. Hruska

Open Access Original research

Priming increases the anti-tumor effect and therapeutic window of 177Lu-octreotate in nude mice bearing human small intestine neuroendocrine tumor GOT1

Johanna Dalmo, Johan Spetz, Mikael Montelius, Britta Langen, Yvonne Arvidsson, Henrik Johansson, Toshima Z. Parris, Khalil Helou, Bo Wängberg, Ola Nilsson, Maria Ljungberg, Eva Forssell-Aronsson

Open Access Original research

Assessment of regional pulmonary blood flow using 68Ga-DOTA PET

Carlos Velasco, Jesus Mateo, Arnoldo Santos, Adriana Mota-Cobian, Fernando Herranz, Juan Pellico, Ruben A. Mota, Samuel España, Jesus Ruiz-Cabello

Open Access Original research

A comparison of FLT to FDG PET/CT in the early assessment of chemotherapy response in stages IB–IIIA resectable NSCLC

John P. Crandall, Abdel K. Tahari, Rosalyn A. Juergens, Julie R. Brahmer, Charles M. Rudin, Giuseppe Esposito, Deepa S. Subramaniam, Michael V. Knopp, Nathan C. Hall, Prateek Gajwani, Jeffrey P. Leal, Martin A. Lodge, Joo H. O., Edward W. Gabrielson, Lalitha K. Shankar, Richard L. Wahl

Open Access Original research

44Sc-PSMA-617 for radiotheragnostics in tandem with 177Lu-PSMA-617—preclinical investigations in comparison with 68Ga-PSMA-11 and 68Ga-PSMA-617

Christoph A. Umbricht, Martina Benešová, Raffaella M. Schmid, Andreas Türler, Roger Schibli, Nicholas P. van der Meulen, Cristina Müller

Open Access Original research

The impact of reconstruction and scanner characterisation on the diagnostic capability of a normal database for [123I]FP-CIT SPECT imaging

John C. Dickson, Livia Tossici-Bolt, Terez Sera, Jan Booij, Morten Ziebell, Silvia Morbelli, Susanne Assenbaum-Nan, Thierry Vander Borght, Marco Pagani, Ozlem L. Kapucu, Swen Hesse, Koen Van Laere, Jacques Darcourt, Andrea Varrone, Klaus Tatsch

Open Access Original research

Comparison of machine learning methods for classifying mediastinal lymph node metastasis of non-small cell lung cancer from 18F-FDG PET/CT images

Hongkai Wang, Zongwei Zhou, Yingci Li, Zhonghua Chen, Peiou Lu, Wenzhi Wang, Wanyu Liu, Lijuan Yu

Open Access Original research

Impact of PET acquisition durations on image quality and lesion detectability in whole-body 68Ga-PSMA PET-MRI

Benjamin Noto, Florian Büther, Katharina Auf der Springe, Nemanja Avramovic, Walter Heindel, Michael Schäfers, Thomas Allkemper, Lars Stegger

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Test-retest analysis of a non-invasive method of quantifying [(11)C]-PBR28 binding in Alzheimer's disease

Akshay Nair, Mattia Veronese, Xiaohui Xu, Charles Curtis, Federico Turkheimer, Robert Howard, Suzanne Reeves

Open Access Original research

3D skeletal uptake of 18F sodium fluoride in PET/CT images is associated with overall survival in patients with prostate cancer

Sarah Lindgren Belal, May Sadik, Reza Kaboteh, Nezar Hasani, Olof Enqvist, Linus Svärm, Fredrik Kahl, Jane Simonsen, Mads H. Poulsen, Mattias Ohlsson, Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen, Lars Edenbrandt, Elin Trägårdh

Open Access Original research

Quantitative evaluation of oxygen metabolism in the intratumoral hypoxia: 18F-fluoromisonidazole and 15O-labelled gases inhalation PET

Tadashi Watabe, Yasukazu Kanai, Hayato Ikeda, Genki Horitsugi, Keiko Matsunaga, Hiroki Kato, Kayako Isohashi, Kohji Abe, Eku Shimosegawa, Jun Hatazawa

Open Access Original research

Pharmacokinetic modeling of [11C]flumazenil kinetics in the rat brain

Isadora Lopes Alves, David Vállez García, Andrea Parente, Janine Doorduin, Rudi Dierckx, Ana Maria Marques da Silva, Michel Koole, Antoon Willemsen, Ronald Boellaard

Open Access Original Research

SPECT image segmentation for estimation of tumour volume and activity concentration in 177Lu-DOTATATE radionuclide therapy

Johan Gustafsson, Anna Sundlöv, Katarina Sjögreen Gleisner

Open Access Original research

18F-FDG-labeled red blood cell PET for blood-pool imaging: preclinical evaluation in rats

Yohji Matsusaka, Tadaki Nakahara, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Yu Iwabuchi, Chiyoko Nishime, Mayumi Kajimura, Masahiro Jinzaki

Open Access Original research

Characteristics of immunoglobulin G4-related aortitis/periaortitis and periarteritis on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography co-registered with contrast-enhanced computed tomography

Satoshi Yabusaki, Noriko Oyama-Manabe, Osamu Manabe, Kenji Hirata, Fumi Kato, Noriyuki Miyamoto, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Kohsuke Kudo, Nagara Tamaki, Hiroki Shirato

Open Access Original research

Voxel-based mapping of grey matter volume and glucose metabolism profiles in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

M-S. Buhour, F. Doidy, A. Mondou, A. Pélerin, L. Carluer, F. Eustache, F. Viader, B. Desgranges

Open Access Original research

New approaches for the reliable in vitro assessment of binding affinity based on high-resolution real-time data acquisition of radioligand-receptor binding kinetics

Markus Zeilinger, Florian Pichler, Lukas Nics, Wolfgang Wadsak, Helmut Spreitzer, Marcus Hacker, Markus Mitterhauser

Open Access Original research

Beta-amyloid deposition in patients with major depressive disorder with differing levels of treatment resistance: a pilot study

Peng Li, Ing-Tsung Hsiao, Chia-Yih Liu, Chia-Hsiang Chen, She-Yao Huang, Tzu-Chen Yen, Kuan-Yi Wu, Kun-Ju Lin

Open Access Original research

Quantitative 18F-fluorocholine positron emission tomography for prostate cancer: correlation between kinetic parameters and Gleason scoring

Joshua D. Schaefferkoetter, Ziting Wang, Mary C. Stephenson, Sharmili Roy, Maurizio Conti, Lars Eriksson, David W. Townsend, Thomas Thamboo, Edmund Chiong

Open Access Original research

Assessment of safety, efficacy, and dosimetry of a novel 18-kDa translocator protein ligand, [11C]CB184, in healthy human volunteers

Muneyuki Sakata, Kenji Ishibashi, Masamichi Imai, Kei Wagatsuma, Kenji Ishii, Kentaro Hatano, Kiichi Ishiwata, Jun Toyohara

Open Access Original research

Comparison of diagnostic performance of four software packages for phase dyssynchrony analysis in gated myocardial perfusion SPECT

Koichi Okuda, Kenichi Nakajima, Shinro Matsuo, Soichiro Kashiwaya, Hiroto Yoneyama, Takayuki Shibutani, Masahisa Onoguchi, Mitsumasa Hashimoto, Seigo Kinuya

Open Access Original research

I-123 iomazenil single photon emission computed tomography for detecting loss of neuronal integrity in patients with traumatic brain injury

Kagari Abiko, Katsunori Ikoma, Tohru Shiga, Chietsugu Katoh, Kenji Hirata, Yuji Kuge, Kentaro Kobayashi, Nagara Tamaki

Open Access Preliminary research

Visual evaluation and differentiation of renal oncocytomas from renal cell carcinomas by means of 99mTc-sestamibi SPECT/CT

Antonios Tzortzakakis, Ove Gustafsson, Mattias Karlsson, Linnea Ekström-Ehn, Rammin Ghaffarpour, Rimma Axelsson

Open Access Short communication

Impact of the EARL harmonization program on automatic delineation of metabolic active tumour volumes (MATVs)

Charline Lasnon, Blandine Enilorac, Hosni Popotte, Nicolas Aide

Open Access Original research

Design, synthesis and evaluation in an LPS rodent model of neuroinflammation of a novel 18F-labelled PET tracer targeting P2X7

Enrico Raffaele Fantoni, Diego Dal Ben, Simonetta Falzoni, Francesco Di Virgilio, Simon Lovestone, Antony Gee

Open Access Original research

Tracking dendritic cell migration into lymph nodes by using a novel PET probe 18F-tetrafluoroborate for sodium/iodide symporter

Sang Bong Lee, Ho Won Lee, Hongje Lee, Yong Hyun Jeon, Sang-Woo Lee, Byeong-Cheol Ahn, Jaetae Lee, Shin Young Jeong

Open Access Original research

High-throughput high-volume nuclear imaging for preclinical in vivo compound screening§

Sven Macholl, Ciara M. Finucane, Jacob Hesterman, Stephen J. Mather, Rachel Pauplis, Deirdre Scully, Jane K. Sosabowski, Erwan Jouannot

Open Access Editorial

Characterization of indeterminate renal masses with molecular imaging: how do we turn potential into reality?

Steven P. Rowe, Mehrbod S. Javadi, Mohamad E. Allaf, Michael A. Gorin

Open Access Original research

The effect of post-injection 18F-FDG PET scanning time on texture analysis of peripheral nerve sheath tumours in neurofibromatosis-1

Eitan Lovat, Musib Siddique, Vicky Goh, Rosalie E. Ferner, Gary J. R. Cook, Victoria S. Warbey

Open Access Original research

Partial volume correction of brain PET studies using iterative deconvolution in combination with HYPR denoising

Sandeep S. V. Golla, Mark Lubberink, Bart N. M. van Berckel, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, Ronald Boellaard

Open Access Original research

Effective dose estimation for oncological and neurological PET/CT procedures

Josep M. Martí-Climent, Elena Prieto, Verónica Morán, Lidia Sancho, Macarena Rodríguez-Fraile, Javier Arbizu, María J. García-Velloso, José A. Richter

Open Access Original research

Therapeutic efficacy of α-radioimmunotherapy with different activity levels of the 213Bi-labeled monoclonal antibody MX35 in an ovarian cancer model

Anna Gustafsson-Lutz, Tom Bäck, Emma Aneheim, Ragnar Hultborn, Stig Palm, Lars Jacobsson, Alfred Morgenstern, Frank Bruchertseifer, Per Albertsson, Sture Lindegren

Open Access Original research

Carotid atherosclerotic plaques standardised uptake values: software challenges and reproducibility

Nicola Giannotti, Martin J. O’Connell, Shane J. Foley, Peter J. Kelly, Jonathan P. McNulty

Open Access Original research

Targeting mannose receptor expression on macrophages in atherosclerotic plaques of apolipoprotein E-knockout mice using 111In-tilmanocept

Zohreh Varasteh, Fabien Hyafil, Nadège Anizan, Devy Diallo, Rachida Aid-Launais, Sarajo Mohanta, Yuanfang Li, Miriam Braeuer, Katja Steiger, Jonathan Vigne, Zhengtao Qin, Stephan G. Nekolla, Jean-Etienne Fabre, Yvonne Döring, Dominique Le Guludec, Andreas Habenicht, David R. Vera, Markus Schwaiger

Open Access Review

Analysis of progress and challenges for various patterns of c-MET-targeted molecular imaging: a systematic review

Zhaoguo Han, Yongyi Wu, Kai Wang, Yadi Xiao, Zhen Cheng, Xilin Sun, Baozhong Shen

Open Access Original research

First in-human radiation dosimetry of 68Ga-NODAGA-RGDyK

Silvano Gnesin, Periklis Mitsakis, Francesco Cicone, Emmanuel Deshayes, Vincent Dunet, Augusto F. Gallino, Marek Kosinski, Sébastien Baechler, Franz Buchegger, David Viertl, John O. Prior

Open Access Original research

Optimization of diagnostic performance for differentiation of recurrence from radiation necrosis in patients with metastatic brain tumors using tumor volume-corrected 11C-methionine uptake

Tae-Young Jung, In-Young Kim, Sa-Hoe Lim, Ki Seong Park, Dong-Yeon Kim, Shin Jung, Kyung-Sub Moon, Woo-Youl Jang, Sae-Ryung Kang, Sang-Geon Cho, Jung-Joon Min, Hee-Seung Bom, Seong Young Kwon

Open Access Original Research

Clinical and imaging-based prognostic factors in radioembolisation of liver metastases from colorectal cancer: a retrospective exploratory analysis

Kathy P. Willowson, Aimee R. Hayes, David L. H. Chan, Michael Tapner, Elizabeth J. Bernard, Richard Maher, Nick Pavlakis, Stephen J. Clarke, Dale L. Bailey

Open Access Original research

Quantitative analysis of dynamic 18F-FDG PET/CT for measurement of lung inflammation

Christopher Coello, Marie Fisk, Divya Mohan, Frederick J. Wilson, Andrew P. Brown, Michael I. Polkey, Ian Wilkinson, Ruth Tal-Singer, Philip S. Murphy, Joseph Cheriyan, Roger N. Gunn

Open Access Original research

Towards standardization of 18F-FET PET imaging: do we need a consistent method of background activity assessment?

Marcus Unterrainer, Franziska Vettermann, Matthias Brendel, Adrien Holzgreve, Michael Lifschitz, Matthias Zähringer, Bogdana Suchorska, Vera Wenter, Ben M. Illigens, Peter Bartenstein, Nathalie L. Albert

Open Access Original research

Monitoring response to anti-angiogenic mTOR inhibitor therapy in vivo using 111In-bevacizumab

Neel Patel, Sarah Able, Danny Allen, Emmanouil Fokas, Bart Cornelissen, Fergus V. Gleeson, Adrian L. Harris, Katherine A. Vallis

Open Access Original research

Clinical value of fluorine-18α-methyltyrosine PET in patients with gliomas: comparison with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET

Keishi Horiguchi, Masahiko Tosaka, Tetsuya Higuchi, Yukiko Arisaka, Kenichi Sugawara, Junko Hirato, Hideaki Yokoo, Yoshito Tsushima, Yuhei Yoshimoto

Open Access Short communication

Response assessment with the CXCR4-directed positron emission tomography tracer [68Ga]Pentixafor in a patient with extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of the orbital cavities

Peter Herhaus, Stefan Habringer, Tibor Vag, Katja Steiger, Julia Slotta-Huspenina, Carlos Gerngroß, Benedikt Wiestler, Hans-Jürgen Wester, Markus Schwaiger, Ulrich Keller

Open Access Original research

PET/CT scanning with 3D acquisition is feasible for quantifying myocardial blood flow when diagnosing coronary artery disease

Osamu Manabe, Masanao Naya, Tadao Aikawa, Masahiko Obara, Keiichi Magota, Markus Kroenke, Noriko Oyama-Manabe, Kenji Hirata, Daiki Shinyama, Chietsugu Katoh, Nagara Tamaki

Open Access Preliminary Research

Use of a digital phantom developed by QIBA for harmonizing SUVs obtained from the state-of-the-art SPECT/CT systems: a multicenter study

Tadaki Nakahara, Hiromitsu Daisaki, Yasushi Yamamoto, Takashi Iimori, Kazuyuki Miyagawa, Tomoya Okamoto, Yoshiki Owaki, Nobuhiro Yada, Koichi Sawada, Ryotaro Tokorodani, Masahiro Jinzaki

Open Access Original research

Test-retest reproducibility of [11C]-l-deprenyl-D2 binding to MAO-B in the human brain

Ryosuke Arakawa, Per Stenkrona, Akihiro Takano, Sangram Nag, Rafael S. Maior, Christer Halldin

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Quantitative 18F-fluorocholine positron emission tomography for prostate cancer: correlation between kinetic parameters and Gleason scoring

Joshua D. Schaefferkoetter, Ziting Wang, Mary C. Stephenson, Sharmili Roy, Maurizio Conti, Lars Eriksson, David W. Townsend, Thomas Thamboo, Edmund Chiong

Open Access Original research

FLT-PET for early response evaluation of colorectal cancer patients with liver metastases: a prospective study

Marie Benzon Mogensen, Annika Loft, Marianne Aznar, Thomas Axelsen, Ben Vainer, Kell Osterlind, Andreas Kjaer

Open Access Original research

Pharmacokinetics, microscale distribution, and dosimetry of alpha-emitter-labeled anti-PD-L1 antibodies in an immune competent transgenic breast cancer model

Jessie R. Nedrow, Anders Josefsson, Sunju Park, Tom Bäck, Robert F. Hobbs, Cory Brayton, Frank Bruchertseifer, Alfred Morgenstern, George Sgouros

Open Access Short communication

Assessment of simplified ratio-based approaches for quantification of PET [11C]PBR28 data

Granville J. Matheson, Pontus Plavén-Sigray, Anton Forsberg, Andrea Varrone, Lars Farde, Simon Cervenka

Open Access Preliminary research

Microglial depletion and activation: A [11C]PBR28 PET study in nonhuman primates

Ansel T. Hillmer, Daniel Holden, Krista Fowles, Nabeel Nabulsi, Brian L. West, Richard E. Carson, Kelly P. Cosgrove

Open Access Original research

The effects of segmentation algorithms on the measurement of 18F-FDG PET texture parameters in non-small cell lung cancer

Usman Bashir, Gurdip Azad, Muhammad Musib Siddique, Saana Dhillon, Nikheel Patel, Paul Bassett, David Landau, Vicky Goh, Gary Cook

Open Access Original research

Selective targeting of melanoma using N-(2-diethylaminoethyl) 4-[18F]fluoroethoxy benzamide (4-[18F]FEBZA): a novel PET imaging probe

Pradeep K. Garg, Rachid Nazih, Yanjun Wu, Vladimir P. Grinevich, Sudha Garg

Open Access Original research

A human PET study of [11C]HMS011, a potential radioligand for AMPA receptors

Keisuke Takahata, Yasuyuki Kimura, Chie Seki, Masaki Tokunaga, Masanori Ichise, Kazunori Kawamura, Maiko Ono, Soichiro Kitamura, Manabu Kubota, Sho Moriguchi, Tatsuya Ishii, Yuhei Takado, Fumitoshi Niwa, Hironobu Endo, Tomohisa Nagashima, Yoko Ikoma, Ming-Rong Zhang, Tetsuya Suhara, Makoto Higuchi

Open Access Original research

O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine PET in gliomas: influence of data processing in different centres

Christian P. Filss, Nathalie L. Albert, Guido Böning, Elena Rota Kops, Bogdana Suchorska, Gabriele Stoffels, Norbert Galldiks, Nadim J. Shah, Felix M. Mottaghy, Peter Bartenstein, Jörg C. Tonn, Karl-Josef Langen

Open Access Original research

Introducing navigation during melanoma-related sentinel lymph node procedures in the head-and-neck region

Gijs H. KleinJan, Baris Karakullukçu, W. Martin C. Klop, Thijs Engelen, Nynke S. van den Berg, Fijs W. B. van Leeuwen

Open Access Original research

Revisiting the Logan plot to account for non-negligible blood volume in brain tissue

Martin Schain, Patrik Fazio, Ladislav Mrzljak, Nahid Amini, Nabil Al-Tawil, Cheryl Fitzer-Attas, Juliana Bronzova, Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Christina Sampaio, Christer Halldin, Andrea Varrone

Open Access Original research

Motor impairment and compensation in a hemiparkinsonian rat model: correlation between dopamine depletion severity, cerebral metabolism and gait patterns

Elena Kordys, Nadine Apetz, Katharina Schneider, Eilidh Duncan, Beatriz Büschbell, Cathrin Rohleder, Michael Sué, Alexander Drzezga, Bernd Neumaier, Lars Timmermann, Heike Endepols

Open Access Original research

Comparative evaluation of 18F-FLT and 18F-FDG for detecting cardiac and extra-cardiac thoracic involvement in patients with newly diagnosed sarcoidosis

Takashi Norikane, Yuka Yamamoto, Yukito Maeda, Takahisa Noma, Hiroaki Dobashi, Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Open Access Original research

Metabolic liver function in humans measured by 2-18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-galactose PET/CT–reproducibility and clinical potential

Kirstine P. Bak-Fredslund, Peter Lykke Eriksen, Ole L. Munk, Gerda E. Villadsen, Susanne Keiding, Michael Sørensen

Open Access Original research

Gut microbiota and physiologic bowel 18F-FDG uptake

Ji Yeon Kang, Han-Na Kim, Yoosoo Chang, Yeojun Yun, Seungho Ryu, Hocheol Shin, Hyung-Lae Kim

Open Access Commentary

Response to letter re: Carotid atherosclerotic plaques standardized uptake values: methodological issues on reproducibility and accuracy

Nicola Giannotti, Martin J. O’Connell, Shane J. Foley, Marie C. Galligan, Peter J. Kelly, Jonathan P. McNulty

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Lapatinib access into normal brain and brain metastases in patients with Her-2 overexpressing breast cancer

Azeem Saleem, Graham E. Searle, Laura M. Kenny, Mickael Huiban, Kasia Kozlowski, Adam D. Waldman, Laura Woodley, Carlo Palmieri, Charles Lowdell, Tomomi Kaneko, Philip S. Murphy, Mike R. Lau, Eric O. Aboagye, Raoul C. Coombes

Open Access Original research

Early assessment of response to induction therapy in acute myeloid leukemia using 18F-FLT PET/CT

Eun Ji Han, Bo-hee Lee, Jeong-A Kim, Young Ha Park, Woo Hee Choi

Open Access Original research

Optimal MRI sequences for 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/MRI in evaluation of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer

Spencer T. Lake, Kirsten L. Greene, Antonio C. Westphalen, Spencer C. Behr, Ronald Zagoria, Eric J. Small, Peter R. Carroll, Thomas A. Hope

Open Access Original research

[18F]Fluoromisonidazole PET in rectal cancer

Tanuj Puri, Tessa A. Greenhalgh, James M. Wilson, Jamie Franklin, Lia Mun Wang, Victoria Strauss, Chris Cunningham, Mike Partridge, Tim Maughan

Open Access Short communication

Group-sequential analysis may allow for early trial termination: illustration by an intra-observer repeatability study

Oke Gerke, Mie H. Vilstrup, Ulrich Halekoh, Malene Grubbe Hildebrandt, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen

Open Access Original research

Correlation of 99mTc-sestamibi uptake in renal masses with mitochondrial content and multi-drug resistance pump expression

Steven P. Rowe, Michael A. Gorin, Lilja B. Solnes, Mark W. Ball, Ajuni Choudhary, Phillip M. Pierorazio, Jonathan I. Epstein, Mehrbod S. Javadi, Mohamad E. Allaf, Alex S. Baras

Open Access Original research

Ra-223 SPECT for semi-quantitative analysis in comparison with Tc-99m HMDP SPECT: phantom study and initial clinical experience

Yoshiki Owaki, Tadaki Nakahara, Takeo Kosaka, Junichi Fukada, Atsuhiro Kumabe, Akira Ichimura, Mikoto Murakami, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Masahiro Fukushi, Kazumasa Inoue, Mototsugu Oya, Masahiro Jinzaki

Open Access Original research

Automatic delineation of functional lung volumes with 68Ga-ventilation/perfusion PET/CT

Pierre-Yves Le Roux, Shankar Siva, Jason Callahan, Yannis Claudic, David Bourhis, Daniel P. Steinfort, Rodney J. Hicks, Michael S. Hofman

Open Access Original research

Initial evaluation of the Celesteion large-bore PET/CT scanner in accordance with the NEMA NU2-2012 standard and the Japanese guideline for oncology FDG PET/CT data acquisition protocol version 2.0

Tomohiro Kaneta, Matsuyoshi Ogawa, Nobutoku Motomura, Hitoshi Iizuka, Tetsu Arisawa, Ayako Hino-Shishikura, Keisuke Yoshida, Tomio Inoue

Open Access Commentary

Comparison of four 11C-labeled PET ligands to quantify translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) in human brain: (R)-PK11195, PBR28, DPA-713, and ER176—based on recent publications that measured specific-to-non-displaceable ratios

Masahiro Fujita, Masato Kobayashi, Masamichi Ikawa, Roger N. Gunn, Eugenii A. Rabiner, David R. Owen, Sami S. Zoghbi, Mohamad B. Haskali, Sanjay Telu, Victor W. Pike, Robert B. Innis

Open Access Original research

Potential of asphericity as a novel diagnostic parameter in the evaluation of patients with 68Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC PET-positive prostate cancer lesions

Sebastian Meißner, Jan-Carlo Janssen, Vikas Prasad, Winfried Brenner, Gerd Diederichs, Bernd Hamm, Frank Hofheinz, Marcus R. Makowski

Open Access Original research

Simple, mild, one-step labelling of proteins with gallium-68 using a tris(hydroxypyridinone) bifunctional chelator: a 68Ga-THP-scFv targeting the prostate-specific membrane antigen

Saima Nawaz, Gregory E. D. Mullen, Kavitha Sunassee, Jayanta Bordoloi, Philip J. Blower, James R. Ballinger

Open Access Original research

Lower serotonin transporter binding in patients with cervical dystonia is associated with psychiatric symptoms

E. Zoons, J. Booij, J. D. Speelman, Y. E. M. Dreissen, M. Smit, M. A. J. Tijssen

Open Access Original research

IDAC-Dose 2.1, an internal dosimetry program for diagnostic nuclear medicine based on the ICRP adult reference voxel phantoms

Martin Andersson, Lennart Johansson, Keith Eckerman, Sören Mattsson

Open Access Original research

TSPO imaging using the novel PET ligand [18F]GE-180: quantification approaches in patients with multiple sclerosis

Lena Vomacka, Nathalie Lisa Albert, Simon Lindner, Marcus Unterrainer, Christoph Mahler, Matthias Brendel, Larissa Ermoschkin, Astrid Gosewisch, Anika Brunegraf, Christopher Buckley, Tania Kümpfel, Rainer Rupprecht, Sibylle Ziegler, Martin Kerschensteiner, Peter Bartenstein, Guido Böning

Open Access Original research

Safety, pharmacokinetics, metabolism and radiation dosimetry of 18F-tetrafluoroborate (18F-TFB) in healthy human subjects

Huailei Jiang, Nicholas R. Schmit, Alex R. Koenen, Aditya Bansal, Mukesh K. Pandey, Robert B. Glynn, Bradley J. Kemp, Kera L. Delaney, Angela Dispenzieri, Jamie N. Bakkum-Gamez, Kah-Whye Peng, Stephen J. Russell, Tina M. Gunderson, Val J. Lowe, Timothy R. DeGrado

Open Access Original research

Oxygen-15 labeled CO2, O2, and CO PET in small animals: evaluation using a 3D-mode microPET scanner and impact of reconstruction algorithms

Genki Horitsugi, Tadashi Watabe, Yasukazu Kanai, Hayato Ikeda, Hiroki Kato, Sadahiro Naka, Mana Ishibashi, Keiko Matsunaga, Kayako Isohashi, Eku Shimosegawa, Jun Hatazawa

Open Access Original research

Diagnostic accuracy of coronary opacification derived from coronary computed tomography angiography to detect ischemia: first validation versus single-photon emission computed tomography

Dominik C. Benz, Fran Mikulicic, Christoph Gräni, Marvin Grossmann, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Michael Messerli, Catherine Gebhard, Oliver Gaemperli, Ronny R. Buechel, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Aju P. Pazhenkottil

Open Access Original research

Evaluation of the novel TSPO radiotracer [18F] VUIIS1008 in a preclinical model of cerebral ischemia in rats

Krishna R. Pulagam, Lorena Colás, Daniel Padro, Sandra Plaza-García, Vanessa Gómez-Vallejo, Makoto Higuchi, Jordi Llop, Abraham Martín

Open Access Original research

Phantom validation of quantitative Y-90 PET/CT-based dosimetry in liver radioembolization

Marco D’Arienzo, Maria Pimpinella, Marco Capogni, Vanessa De Coste, Luca Filippi, Emiliano Spezi, Nick Patterson, Francesca Mariotti, Paolo Ferrari, Paola Chiaramida, Michael Tapner, Alexander Fischer, Timo Paulus, Roberto Pani, Giuseppe Iaccarino, Marco D’Andrea, Lidia Strigari, Oreste Bagni

Open Access Original research

Pretargeting of internalizing trastuzumab and cetuximab with a 18F-tetrazine tracer in xenograft models

Outi Keinänen, Kimberly Fung, Jacob Pourat, Vilma Jallinoja, Delphine Vivier, NagaVara Kishore Pillarsetty, Anu J. Airaksinen, Jason S. Lewis, Brian M. Zeglis, Mirkka Sarparanta

Open Access Original research

[18F]-BMS-747158-02PET imaging for evaluating hepatic mitochondrial complex 1dysfunction in a mouse model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Takemi Rokugawa, Sotaro Momosaki, Miwa Ito, Hitoshi Iimori, Yuki Kato, Kohji Abe

Open Access Original research

Quantitative 3D scintigraphy shows increased muscular uptake of pyrophosphate in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Karin Folmer Thøgersen, Jane Angel Simonsen, Svend Hvidsten, Oke Gerke, Søren Jacobsen, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen, Karen Middelbo Buch-Olsen, Louise Pyndt Diederichsen

Open Access Original research

Biodistribution and radiation dosimetry of [64Cu]copper dichloride: first-in-human study in healthy volunteers

M.A. Avila-Rodriguez, C. Rios, J. Carrasco-Hernandez, J. C. Manrique-Arias, R. Martinez-Hernandez, F. O. García-Pérez, A. R. Jalilian, E. Martinez-Rodriguez, M. E. Romero-Piña, A. Diaz-Ruiz

Open Access Correction

Correction to: The relationship between endogenous thymidine concentrations and [18F]FLT uptake in a range of preclinical tumour models

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