Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Toward improved standardization of PET myocardial blood flow

• EDITOR'S PAGE

Robert A. deKemp

JNC Awards

• NEWS

Ami E. Iskandrian

What is this image? 2023 image 1 results: Precision high-resolution CZT SPECT imaging to evaluate cardiac aTTR amyloidosis

• WHAT IS THIS IMAGE?

Erin M. Armenia, Maria L. Mackin, Piotr Karmilowicz, Anas Jawaid, Michael V. Hannon, Farhan Bajwa, Sabu Thomas, Hima Vidula, Jeffrey Alexis, Prem Soman, Ronald G. Schwartz

What is this image? 2023: Image 2

• WHAT IS THIS IMAGE?

Decline in typical angina among patients referred for cardiac stress testing

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Alan Rozanski, Donghee Han, Robert J. H. Miller, Heidi Gransar, Piotr J. Slomka, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, Louise E. J. Thomson, Daniel S. Berman

Is dyspnea the new angina? The ever-changing profile of patients referred for CAD evaluation

• EDITORIAL

Rami Doukky, Milena Henzlova

CME INSTRUCTIONS: Role of nuclear cardiology in diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary microvascular disease

• CME INSTRUCTIONS

Role of nuclear cardiology in diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary microvascular disease

• Review Article

Terrence D. Ruddy, Anahita Tavoosi, Viviany R. Taqueti

Dose-consistent dynamic SPECT

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

A. Krakovich, E. Gelbart, I. Moalem, A. Naimushin, E. Rozen, M. Scheinowitz, R. Goldkorn

Left-ventricular volumes and ejection fraction from cardiac ECG-gated 15O-water positron emission tomography compared to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging using simultaneous hybrid PET/MR

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Jonny Nordström, Sofia Kvernby, Tanja Kero, Jens Sörensen, Hendrik J. Harms, Mark Lubberink

Cardiac DPD-uptake time dependency in ATTR patients verified by quantitative SPECT/CT and semiquantitative planar parameters

• Open Access
• Original Article

Tim Wollenweber, Rene Rettl, Elisabeth Kretschmer-Chott, Sazan Rasul, Oana Cristina Kulterer, Kilian Kluge, Franz Duca, Diana Bonderman, Marcus Hacker, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger

Time is a gift: time-dependent uptake of DPD in cardiac amyloidosis

• EDITORIAL

Sabahat Bokhari, Amna Zafar

Diagnostic value of heart-to-mediastinum ratio in 99mTc-pyrophospate SPECT/CT for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Takenori Ikoma, Hayato Ohtani, Kazuto Ohno, Keisuke Iguchi, Kenichiro Suwa, Michifumi Sawada, Yukichi Tanahashi, Atsushi Sakamoto, Masao Saotome, Shintaro Ichikawa, Satoshi Goshima, Yuichiro Maekawa

Quantitative PYP metrics: separating the wheat from the chaff

• EDITORIAL

Dominik C. Benz, Sharmila Dorbala

Comparison of the prognostic value of impaired stress myocardial blood flow, myocardial flow reserve, and myocardial flow capacity on low-dose Rubidium-82 SiPM PET/CT

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Matthieu Dietz, Christel H. Kamani, Gilles Allenbach, Vladimir Rubimbura, Stephane Fournier, Vincent Dunet, Giorgio Treglia, Marie Nicod Lalonde, Niklaus Schaefer, Eric Eeckhout, Olivier Muller, John O. Prior

More evidence for prognostic value of quantification of myocardial perfusion

• EDITORIAL

Antti Saraste, Juhani Knuuti, Jeroen J. Bax

Impact of disposable syringes type choice on myocardial perfusion imaging procedures with [99mTc]Tc-tetrofosmin

• Brief Report

Typhanie Ladriere, Cedric Desmonts, Pierre-André Zimmermann, Damien Peyronnet, Denis Agostini, Jonathan Vigne

Performance of 8- vs 16 ECG-gated reconstructions in assessing myocardial function using Rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging: Findings in a young, healthy population

• BRIEF REPORT

Martin Lyngby Lassen, Mads Wissenberg, Christina Byrne, Andreas Kjaer, Philip Hasbak

Diagnostic performance characteristics of planar quantitative and semi-quantitative parameters of Tc99m pyrophosphate (PYP) imaging for diagnosis of transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis: the SCAN-MP study

• BRIEF REPORT

Shivda Pandey, Sergio Teruya, Carlos Rodriguez, Albert Deluca, Mona Kinkhabwala, Lynne L. Johnson, Denise Fine, Natalia Sabogal, Morgan Winburn, Michelle Castillo, Ketan Bhatia, Rita Malkovskaya, Farbod Raiszadeh, Damian Kurian, Edward J. Miller, Andrew J. Einstein, Mathew S. Maurer, Frederick L. Ruberg

Amyloid myopathy: expanding the clinical spectrum of transthyretin amyloidosis—case report and literature review

• Open Access
• Case Presentation Corner

Maria Ungericht, Julia Wanschitz, Alexander S. Kroiss, Christoph Röcken, Thomas Schuetz, Moritz Messner, Marc-Michael Zaruba, Wolfgang N. Loescher, Gerhard Poelzl

Prognostic value of myocardial flow reserve derived by quantitative SPECT for patients with intermediate coronary stenoses

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Ruoxi Sun, Rongzheng Ma, Meng Wang, Kai Han, Zongyao Zhang, Lei Wang, Wei Fang

SPECT measurements of myocardial blood flow and flow reserve: from development to implementation

• Editorial

Andrew Van Tosh, Kenneth J. Nichols

External validation and update of the J-ACCESS model in an Italian cohort of patients undergoing stress myocardial perfusion imaging

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Mario Petretta, Rosario Megna, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Carmela Nappi, Valeria Gaudieri, Teresa Mannarino, Roberta Green, Valeria Cantoni, Adriana D’Antonio, Mariarosaria Panico, Wanda Acampa, Alberto Cuocolo

A cardiovascular risk model validated in Japan applied to an Italian cohort: Procedere con prudenza

• EDITORIAL

Edward A. Hulten

Extracardiac findings with increased perfusion during clinical O-15-H2O PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging: A case series

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Mads Ryø Jochumsen, David Lyse Overgaard, Mikkel Holm Vendelbo, Michael Alle Madsen, Lars Poulsen Tolbod, Lars Christian Gormsen, Trine Ørhøj Barkholt

Prevalence and nature of extracardiac findings in PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging

• EDITORIAL

Sthuthi David, René R. Sevag Packard

Radiomics for the detection of diffusely impaired myocardial perfusion: A proof-of-concept study using 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Ganna Degtiarova, Chrysoula Garefa, Reto Boehm, Domenico Ciancone, Daniel Sepulcri, Catherine Gebhard, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Ronny R. Buechel

Splenic switch-off in regadenoson 82Rb-PET myocardial perfusion imaging: assessment of clinical utility

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Jean Michel Saad, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Yushui Han, Lamees I. El Nihum, Fares Alahdab, Faisal Nabi, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

Extensive cardiac FDG uptake in a patient with AL amyloidosis

• CASE PRESENTATION CORNER

Suzan Hatipoglu, Ashutosh D. Wechalekar, Kshama Wechalekar

Machine learning based model to diagnose obstructive coronary artery disease using calcium scoring, PET imaging, and clinical data

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

J. A. van Dalen, S. S. Koenders, R. J. Metselaar, B. N. Vendel, D. J. Slotman, M. Mouden, C. H. Slump, J. D. van Dijk

The power of zero calcium in 82-Rubidium PET irrespective of sex and age

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Simon M. Frey, Olivier F. Clerc, Ursina Honegger, Melissa Amrein, Kathrin Thommen, Federico Caobelli, Philip Haaf, Christian E. Müller, Michael J. Zellweger

Does financial hardship associate with abnormal quantitative myocardial perfusion and major adverse cardiovascular event?

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Danai Kitkungvan, Nils P. Johnson, Linh Bui, Monica B. Patel, Amanda E. Roby, Mary Haynie, Richard Kirkeeide, Susan Hood, K. Lance Gould

Financial hardship and major adverse cardiovascular events: The role of advanced cardiac imaging

• EDITORIAL

Kaitlin Shinn, Venkatesh L. Murthy

Prednisone vs methotrexate in treatment naïve cardiac sarcoidosis

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Roeland Vis, Harold Mathijssen, Ruth G. M. Keijsers, Ewoudt M. W. van de Garde, Marcel Veltkamp, Fatima Akdim, Marco C. Post, Jan C. Grutters

Methotrexate for cardiac sarcoidosis: is it justifiable?

• EDITORIAL

Tomoya Sato, Tadao Aikawa

Relationship between impaired myocardial blood flow by positron emission tomography and low-attenuation plaque burden and pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation from coronary computed tomography: From the prospective PACIFIC trial

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Keiichiro Kuronuma, Pepijn A. van Diemen, Donghee Han, Andrew Lin, Kajetan Grodecki, Jacek Kwiecinski, Manish Motwani, Priscilla McElhinney, Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Caroline Park, Alan Kwan, Evangelos Tzolos, Eyal Klein, Benjamin Shou, Balaji Tamarappoo, Sebastien Cadet, Ibrahim Danad, Roel S. Driessen, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka, Damini Dey, Paul Knaapen

The fat and the flow: multiparametric imaging assessment of pericoronary adipose tissue and myocardial blood flow

• EDITORIAL

Ibolya Csecs, Attila Feher

Comparison of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the assessment of cardiac sarcoidosis: Meta-analysis and systematic review

• Review Article

Mehul Adhaduk, Bishow Paudel, Muhammad Umar Khalid, Mahi Ashwath, Shareef Mansour, Kan Liu

Diagnostic testing in cardiac sarcoidosis: what comes first?

• EDITORIAL

Purvi Parwani, Amit R. Patel

Cardiac amyloidosis in Latin America: Gaps and opportunities to increase awareness of the disease. Findings from the AMILO-LATAM research group

• International Corner

Fernando Mut, Isabel Carvajal, Jorge Camilletti, Juan Erriest, Erick Alexanderson, Gabriel Blacher Grossman

A retrospective evaluation of Bayesian-penalized likelihood reconstruction for [15O]H2O myocardial perfusion imaging

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Reetta Siekkinen, Chunlei Han, Teemu Maaniitty, Mika Teräs, Juhani Knuuti, Antti Saraste, Jarmo Teuho

Effects of olmesartan and amlodipine on blood pressure, endothelial function, and vascular inflammation

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Akihiro Honda, Nobuhiro Tahara, Atsuko Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Yoichi Sugiyama, Sachiyo Igata, Yuri Nishino, Takanori Matsui, Seiji Kurata, Toshi Abe, Sho-ichi Yamagishi, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Targeting atherosclerosis with antihypertensive therapy

• EDITORIAL

Terrence D. Ruddy, Yoshito Kadoya, Gary R. Small

Machine learning-based prediction of conversion coefficients for I-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine heart-to-mediastinum ratio

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Koichi Okuda, Kenichi Nakajima, Chiemi Kitamura, Michael Ljungberg, Tetsuo Hosoya, Yumiko Kirihara, Mitsumasa Hashimoto

Anti-inflammatory effect of biologic therapy in patients with psoriatic disease: A prospective cohort FDG PET study

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Kevin E. Boczar, Rob S. Beanlands, Steven J. Glassman, Jerry Wang, Wanzhen Zeng, Robert A. deKemp, Natalie C. Ward, Christophe A. Fehlmann, George A. Wells, Jacob Karsh, Girish Dwivedi

PET-FDG for vascular imaging: a “visual barometer” for inflammatory risk?

• EDITORIAL

Pourya Yarahmadi, Patricia K. Nguyen

Regional CZT myocardial perfusion reserve for the detection of territories with simultaneously impaired CFR and IMR in patients without obstructive coronary artery disease: a pilot study

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Loïc Djaïleb, Nicolas De Leiris, Marjorie Canu, Olivier Phan Sy, Alexandre Seiller, Julien Leenhardt, Clémence Charlon, Marine Faure, Jessica Caillard, Alexis Broisat, Anne-Laure Borel, Sandrine Lablanche, Cécile Betry, Catherine Ghezzi, Gérald Vanzetto, Daniel Fagret, Laurent M. Riou, Gilles Barone-Rochette

Myocardial perfusion reserve by CZT cameras: A journey inside coronary microvascular circulation. Is it time to leave yet?

• EDITORIAL

Emilia Zampella, Roberta Assante, Wanda Acampa

Incidental scan findings in cardiac amyloid scintigraphy

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE

E. Gordon DePuey

Looking inside AND outside the heart

• EDITORIAL

Padma P. Manapragada, Pradeep Bhambhvani

Myocardial fibroblast activation imaging in light chain cardiac amyloidosis

• Images that Teach

Xiao-Ying Xi, Li Wang, Aijun Liu, Min-Fu Yang

LV functional evaluation on 11C-PiB PET/CT in cardiac amyloidosis

• Images that Teach

Misaki Miyatake, Takashi Norikane, Masashi Imajo, Yasukage Takami, Katsuya Mitamura, Yuka Yamamoto, Yukito Maeda, Takahisa Noma, Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Cardiac fibroblast activation imaging in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

• Images that Teach

Yu Zhang, Yi-Lu Wang, Min-Fu Yang, Li Wang

Inflammatory response of Teflon felt strip 41 years after surgical repair for Ebstein’s anomaly

• Images that Teach

Takanori Kono, Nobuhiro Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Kosuke Saku, Yoichi Sugiyama, Akihiro Honda, Tohru Takaseya, Takahiro Shojima, Kazuyoshi Takagi, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Eiki Tayama

18F-FDG PET/CT assisted exclusion of cardiac device-related infective endocarditis

• Images that Teach

Adnan Halboni, John Dawdy, Tushar Mishra, John Dayco, Anupama Kottam

[68Ga]-DOTATOC PET/CT in myocardial metastases of neuroendocrine neoplasms

• Images that Teach

Yiraldine Herrera-Martínez, José Luis Vercher-Conejero, Juan José Martín-Marcuartu, Alex Telué Vega, Fernando Guerrero-Pérez, Montserrat Cortés Romera

High-resolution PET demonstrates extensive ischemia/fibrosis mismatch in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the power of multimodality image fusion

• Images that Teach

A. M. Crean, G. S. Small, B. J. W. Chow, T. D. Ruddy, R. S. B. Beanlands, R. A. deKemp

Myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Is this the correct test?

• Images that Teach

John Dawdy, Xavier Akins, Irfan Shafi, Anupama Kottam

11C-MET PET for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring in a patient with IgG4-related periaortitis/periarteritis concomitant with atherosclerosis

• Images that Teach

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

PET myocardial perfusion imaging in superior vena cava syndrome

• Images that Teach

Kenechukwu Mezue, David Chow, Ahmed Tawakol, Georges El Fakhri, Michael T. Osborne

A story of resolved ischemia from anomalous coronary arteries as told by PET/CT

• Images that Teach

Tiffany Dong, Tom Kai Ming Wang, Paul Cremer, Hani K. Najm, Wael Jaber

Importance of multimodality imaging approach for the detection of a cardiac metastasis in a patient with a large B-cell lymphoma

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Sara Pacella

Multimodality cardiac imaging for the management of cardiac masses

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Christoph Gräni

In the thick of it: highlighting the importance of SPECT imaging

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Waseem Hijazi, Robert J. H. Miller

Reply to the letter: In the thick of it: highlighting the importance of SPECT imaging

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dia A. Smiley, Mathew S. Maurer, Andrew J. Einstein

Using standardized uptake values in pyrophosphate imaging

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Jia Wen Chong, Shao Teng Chong, Joseph C. Lee

Response to letter to the editor

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Juan Carlo Avalon, Raymond Raylman, Yasmin S. Hamirani

Recent clinical trials support continued emphasis on patient-first over modality-first approaches to initial test selection in patients with stable ischemic heart disease

• Editorial

Nishant R. Shah, Edward A. Hulten, Suman Tandon, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Sharmila Dorbala, Randall C. Thompson

Revascularization of non-culprit lesions: A common dilemma

• Editorial

Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Emilia Zampella, Adriana D’Antonio, Alberto Cuocolo

The journey to exceptional imaging: Three steps we all must take

• NEWS

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah