Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

In celebration of being alive

Saurabh Malhotra

A quick glance at selected topics in this issue

Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian

Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers

Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage

Nuclear Cardiology in the Literature: A selection of recent, original research papers

Vasvi Singh, Saurabh Malhotra

What is this image? 2020: Image 1

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Kazuhiro Koyanagawa, Masanao Naya, Osamu Manabe, Toshihisa Anzai

George A. Beller, MD (Born 1940)

Frans J. Th. Wackers

Association between vertebral bone mineral density, myocardial perfusion, and long-term cardiovascular outcomes: A sex-specific analysis

Michael Fiechter, Susan Bengs, Andrea Roggo, Ahmed Haider, Monika Marędziak, Angela Portmann, Valerie Treyer, Irene A. Burger, Michael Messerli, Dimitri Patriki, Elia von Felten, Dominik C. Benz, Tobias A. Fuchs, Christoph Gräni, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Ronny R. Buechel, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Catherine Gebhard

Feasibility of simultaneous dual isotope acquisition for myocardial perfusion imaging with a cadmium zinc telluride camera

Bernard Songy, Mohamed Guernou, David Lussato, Mathieu Queneau, Gerald Bonardel, Jean-François Grellier, Ludovic Flahaut, Duc Nguyen

Simultaneous dual isotope 201Tl/99mTc myocardial perfusion imaging using CZT cameras: Clinical utility or technical challenge?

Emilia Zampella, Carmela Nappi, Wanda Acampa

Multi-peak multi-isotopes myocardial SPECT: It’s easier said than done

C. Marcassa, O. Zoccarato

Head-to-head comparison of the diagnostic performances of Rubidium-PET and SPECT with CZT camera for the detection of myocardial ischemia in a population of women and overweight individuals

Fabien Hyafil, Renata Chequer, Emmanuel Sorbets, Candice Estellat, Gregory Ducrocq, François Rouzet, Toni Alfaiate, Hamza Regaieg, Jérémie Abtan, Sébastien Leygnac, Milan Milliner, Laetitia Imbert, Samuel Burg, Rana Ben Azzouna, Louis Potier, Cédric Laouénan, Caroline Quintin, Ronan Roussel, Agnès Hartemann, Gilles Montalescot, Pierre-Yves Marie, Gabriel Steg, Dominique Le Guludec

Myocardial perfusion imaging in overweight patients and women: Is it CZT good enough?

Gabriel Blacher Grossman

Quantification of 11C-PIB kinetics in cardiac amyloidosis

Tanja Kero, Jens Sörensen, Gunnar Antoni, Helena Wilking, Kristina Carlson, Ola Vedin, Sara Rosengren, Gerhard Wikström, Mark Lubberink

Drivers of radiation dose reduction with myocardial perfusion imaging: A large health system experience

Firas J. Al Badarin, John A. Spertus, Timothy M. Bateman, Krishna K. Patel, Eric V. Burgett, Kevin F. Kennedy, Randall C. Thompson

Good drivers: Achieving dose reduction across a health care system through implementation of multiple radiation-sparing practices

Mathew Mercuri, Andrew J. Einstein

CME INSTRUCTIONS: The Role of Cardiac Imaging in the Management of Nonischemic Cardiovascular Diseases in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

The role of cardiac imaging in the management of non-ischemic cardiovascular diseases in human immunodeficiency virus infection

Ahmed Aljizeeri, Gary Small, Saurabh Malhotra, Ronny Buechel, Diwakar Jain, Girish Dwivedi, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

Simplified quantification of 13N-ammonia PET myocardial blood flow: A comparative study with the standard compartment model to facilitate clinical use

Chih-Yung Chang, Guang-Uei Hung, Bailing Hsu, Bang-Hung Yang, Chi-Wei Chang, Lien-Hsin Hu, Wen-Sheng Huang, Hsin-Ell Wang, Tao-Cheng Wu, Ren-Shyan Liu

Simplified quantification of PET myocardial blood flow: The need for technical standardization

Jonathan B. Moody, Edward P. Ficaro, Venkatesh L. Murthy

Prognostic values of 123I-MIBG myocardial scintigraphy and heart rate variability in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Hidenobu Hashimoto, Rine Nakanishi, Sunao Mizumura, Yukiko Hashimoto, Yuriko Okamura, Kyoko Yamanaka, Junichi Yamazaki, Takanori Ikeda

Heart rate and 123I-MIBG in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: More variability and slower washout—A secret recipe for better survival

Wael AlJaroudi

Characterization of a highly effective preparation for suppression of myocardial glucose utilization

Sophia R. Larson, Justin A. Pieper, Edward A. Hulten, Edward P. Ficaro, James R. Corbett, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Richard L. Weinberg

Seeking clarity: Insights from a highly effective preparation protocol for suppressing myocardial glucose uptake for PET imaging of cardiac inflammation

Michael T. Osborne, Sanjay Divakaran

A tale of two technologies: Can nuclear cardiology survive the emergence of cardiac CT the seventeenth annual Mario S. Verani lectureship

John Mahmarian

68Ga-DOTA chelate, a novel imaging agent for assessment of myocardial perfusion and infarction detection in a rodent model

Anu Autio, Sauli Uotila, Max Kiugel, Ville Kytö, Heidi Liljenbäck, Nobuyuki Kudomi, Vesa Oikonen, Olli Metsälä, Semi Helin, Juhani Knuuti, Antti Saraste, Anne Roivainen

What did we learn from PET/MR?

Markus Schwaiger, Stephan G. Nekolla

Feasibility and accuracy of SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in end-stage lung disease

Sanziana R. I. Schiopu, Mathias Zacherl, Andrei Todica, Peter Bartenstein, Katrin Milger, Gabriela Leuschner, Dieter Munker, Matthäus Bauer, Steffen Massberg, Jürgen Behr, Claus Neurohr, Bruno C. Huber, Nikolaus Kneidinger

Myocardial perfusion imaging with regadenoson stress in advanced lung disease

Jussi Schultz, Antti Saraste

Identification and typing of cardiac amyloidosis by noninvasive imaging: Two cases for two patterns

Carmela Nappi, Emilia Zampella, Fabio Volpe, Marina De Risi, Leandra Piscopo, Andrea Ponsiglione, Massimo Imbriaco, Wanda Acampa, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo

Review of cardiovascular imaging in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2019: Positron emission tomography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance

Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage

123I-MIBG for detection of subacute doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in patients with malignant lymphoma

Adam Høgsbro Laursen, Rasmus Sejersten Ripa, Philip Hasbak, Andreas Kjær, Marie Bayer Elming, Lars Køber, Martin Hutchings, Jens Jakob Thune

Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity: Is there a role for myocardial 123I-mIBG scintigraphy?

Hein J. Verberne, Derk O. Verschure

Safety of regadenoson positron emission tomography stress testing in orthotopic heart transplant patients

John J. Lazarus, Ashraf Saleh, Michael Ghannam, Keith Aaronson, Monica Colvin, Frank Pagani, Todd Koelling, James R. Corbett, Richard L. Weinberg, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Matthew C. Konerman

Regadenoson in heart transplant recipients: Use without worries

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

Coronary artery 18F-NaF PET analysis with the use of an elastic motion correction software

Jamie W. Bellinge, Kamran Majeed, Stuart S. Carr, Judson Jones, Inki Hong, Roslyn J. Francis, Carl J. Schultz

Analytical quantification of aortic valve 18F-sodium fluoride PET uptake

Daniele Massera, Mhairi K. Doris, Sebastien Cadet, Jacek Kwiecinski, Tania A. Pawade, Frederique E. C. M. Peeters, Damini Dey, David E. Newby, Marc R. Dweck, Piotr J. Slomka

Multimodality image fusion, moving forward

Marina Piccinelli

A learning-based automatic segmentation and quantification method on left ventricle in gated myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging: A feasibility study

Tonghe Wang, Yang Lei, Haipeng Tang, Zhuo He, Richard Castillo, Cheng Wang, Dianfu Li, Kristin Higgins, Tian Liu, Walter J. Curran, Weihua Zhou, Xiaofeng Yang

Left ventricle segmentation in the era of deep learning

Jelmer M. Wolterink

Prediction of sudden cardiac death in chronic heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction by ADMIRE-HF risk score and early repolarization pattern

Iyo Ikeda-Yorifuji, Takahisa Yamada, Shunsuke Tamaki, Takashi Morita, Yoshio Furukawa, Yusuke Iwasaki, Masato Kawasaki, Atsushi Kikuchi, Tsutomu Kawai, Masahiro Seo, Eiji Fukuhara, Makoto Abe, Jun Nakamura, Masatake Fukunami

The quest to improve sudden cardiac death prediction using sympathetic innervation scintigraphy: Chasing a mirage?

Firas J. Al Badarin, Poghni Peri-Okonny

Adapting to a novel disruptive threat: Nuclear Cardiology Service in the time of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak 2020 (SARS REBOOT)

Kelvin S. H. Loke, Wei Ying Tham, Pushan Bharadwaj, Felix Y. J. Keng, Zijuan Huang, Muhammad Bin Idu, Yen Ming Wong, Paul Kia Siong Tan, Sumbul Zaheer, Yiu Ming Khor, David Chee Eng Ng, Wai Yin Wong, Aaron Kian-Ti Tong

Rationale and design of the REgistry of Fast Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with NExt generation SPECT (REFINE SPECT)

Piotr J. Slomka, Julian Betancur, Joanna X. Liang, Yuka Otaki, Lien-Hsin Hu, Tali Sharir, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo Di Carli, Mathews B. Fish, Terrence D. Ruddy, Timothy M. Bateman, Andrew J. Einstein, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Edward J. Miller, Albert J. Sinusas, Peyman N. Azadani, Heidi Gransar, Balaji K. Tamarappoo, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Guido Germano

Guidance and best practices for nuclear cardiology laboratories during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: An Information Statement from ASNC and SNMMI

Hicham Skali, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Tim M. Bateman, Rob Beanlands, Nathan Better, Dennis A. Calnon, Vasken Dilsizian, Alessia Gimelli, Robert Pagnanelli, Donna M. Polk, Prem Soman, Randall C. Thompson, Andrew J. Einstein, Sharmila Dorbala

Rationale and design of the quantification of myocardial blood flow using dynamic PET/CTA-fused imagery (DEMYSTIFY) to determine physiological significance of specific coronary lesions

Ahmed AlBadri, Marina Piccinelli, Sang-Geon Cho, Joo Myung Lee, Wissam Jaber, Carlo N. De Cecco, Habib Samady, Bon-Kwon Koo, Hee-Seung Bom, Ernest V. Garcia

Hydroxymethylene diphosphonate for imaging transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

Joseph C. Lee, Ramin Alipour

PYP or DPD and HDP for cardiac amyloidosis one for all, all for one

Francesco Cappelli, Chiara Gallini, Federico Perfetto

Letter apropos “Reversible perfusion defect in hypertrophied papillary muscle on myocardial perfusion imaging: The ‘filled doughnut sign’”

Mohsen Qutbi

High prevalence of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in patients with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

Talal Asif, Tiago Araujo, Vasvi Singh, Saurabh Malhotra

Cardiovascular outcomes in heart transplant recipients

Joseph C. Lee, Nathan Better

Response to Lee et al

Maryam Mahmood

Nuclear imaging in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis

Joseph C. Lee, Yong S. Wee, Robert L. Horvath

Low-dose radiation cancer risk hypothesis may lead to ‘radiophobia’-driven imaging avoidance?

G. Angelidis, I. Tsougos, V. Valotassiou, P. Georgoulias

Letter to the editor for a mistake found in a proof-of-principle study on right ventricular

Chongchong Zhou, Jianzhou Shi, Yuxiu Liu

Right ventricular reversible perfusion defects

Fadi G Hage

Takotsubo syndrome or myocardial stunning due to spasm of a non-obstructive left anterior descending coronary artery?

John E. Madias

Reply to letter to the editor regarding “prevalence and variability in reporting of clinically actionable incidental findings on attenuation-correction CT scans in a veteran population”

Brian J. Malm, B. Julie He, Michele Carino, Mehran M. Sadeghi

Pulmonary nodules incidentally detected on attenuation-correction CT scans in MPI

Joseph C. Lee, Francis T. Delaney

Reversible perfusion defect in hypertrophied papillary muscle on myocardial perfusion imaging: The ‘filled doughnut sign’

Shelvin Kumar Vadi, Prashant Panda, Ashwani Sood, Ajay Bahl, Uma Debi, Madan Parmar, Mohamed Yaser, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

Mediastinal T-lymphoblastic lymphoma mimicking invasive thymoma on 18F-FDG PET/CT in a young patient

Huipan Liu, Yue Chen

Signal intensity of superb micro-vascular imaging associates with the activity of vascular inflammation in Takayasu arteritis

Shinichiro Ito, Nobuhiro Tahara, Saki Hirakata, Shinjiro Kaieda, Atsuko Tahara, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Munehisa Bekki, Yoichi Sugiyama, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Ryoko Kuromatsu, Osamu Nakashima, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Cardiac sarcoidosis mimicking myocardial infarction: a comprehensive evaluation using computed tomography and positron emission tomography

Tadao Aikawa, Kazuhiro Koyanagawa, Noriko Oyama-Manabe, Toshihisa Anzai

Incidental Detection of Locally Progressed Pancreatic Cancer on SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Images

Ikenna Erinne, Jeffrey Kempf

Marked ST-segment elevations during regadenoson pharmacologic nuclear stress testing

Nicholas Chan, Vikaas Kataria, Beom Soo Kim, Peter Raimondi, John N. Makaryus

Assessing therapeutic efficacy in coronary artery disease with SPECT myocardial blood flow

Quentin Brana, Frédérique Thibault, Gilles Metrard, Matthieu Bailly

In Memoriam: Eugenio Inglese 1945–2020

Raffaele Giubbini, Pierluigi Pieri, Gianmario Sambuceti

ASNC’s efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic