Announcement from Publications Committee

Daniel S. Berman

JNC’s top performers of 2016, and locating our new initiatives

Ami E. Iskandrian

A quick glance at selected topics in this issue

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

A selection of recent, original research papers

Saurabh Malhotra, Prem Soman

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

Fadi G. Hage, Wael AlJaroudi

What is this image? 2017: Image 6

What is This Image? 2017: Image 5 Result

Fabien Hyafil, Lorenzo Garzelli, Aziza Touati

Significant correlation between renal 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy and muscle sympathetic nerve activity in patients with primary hypertension

Masayuki Takamura, Hisayoshi Murai, Yoshitaka Okabe, Yuji Okuyama, Takuto Hamaoka, Yusuke Mukai, Hideki Tokuhisa, Oto Inoue, Shin-ichiro Takashima, Takeshi Kato, Shinro Matsuo, Soichiro Usui, Hiroshi Furusho, Shuichi Kaneko

123I-mIBG scintigraphy: Clinical tool for assessing renal sympathetic activity?

Christopher George, Pradeep G. Bhambhvani, Suzanne Oparil

Ventricular arrhythmias and autonomic nervous system: evolving role of radionuclide imaging

Vineet Kumar, Arka Chaterjee

Value of attenuation correction in stress-only myocardial perfusion imaging using CZT-SPECT

J. D. van Dijk, M. Mouden, J. P. Ottervanger, J. A. van Dalen, S. Knollema, C. H. Slump, P. L. Jager

Attenuation correction in stress-only myocardial perfusion imaging

Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Oliver Gaemperli

Conduction abnormalities during dipyridamole stress testing

Samia Massalha, Ilya Reizberg, Ora Israel, Michael Kapeliovich, Haitham Sholy, Amjad Koskosi, Zohar Keidar, Ibrahim Marai

Arrhythmias in vasodilator stress testing

Rajeeve Subbiah, Pravin V. Patil

Adenosine triphosphate stress myocardial perfusion imaging for risk stratification of patients aged 70 years and older with suspected coronary artery disease

Zhiming Yao, Hui Zhu, Wenchan Li, Congxia Chen, Hua Wang, Lei Shi, Wenjie Zhang

ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/STS 2016 Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes

Manesh R. Patel, John H. Calhoon, Gregory J. Dehmer, James Aaron Grantham, Thomas M. Maddox, David J. Maron, Peter K. Smith

Conducting and interpreting high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Rajat Kalra, Pankaj Arora, Charity Morgan, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian, Navkaranbir S. Bajaj

The prognostic value of mechanical left ventricular dyssynchrony defined by phase analysis from gated single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging among patients with coronary heart disease

Paul L. Hess, Linda K. Shaw, Marat Fudim, Ami E. Iskandrian, Salvador Borges-Neto

Left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony in patients with coronary artery disease

Nili Zafrir

Quantitative relationship between coronary artery calcium and myocardial blood flow by hybrid rubidium-82 PET/CT imaging in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Parthiban Arumugam, Wanda Acampa, Massimo Imbriaco, Deborah Tout, Mario Petretta, Christine Tonge, Alberto Cuocolo

Functional compared to anatomical imaging in the initial evaluation of patients with suspected coronary artery disease: An international, multi-center, randomized controlled trial (IAEA-SPECT/CTA study)

Ganesan Karthikeyan, Barbara Guzic Salobir, Borut Jug, Niveditha Devasenapathy, Erick Alexanderson, Joao Vitola, Otakar Kraft, Elgin Ozkan, Saket Sharma, Gaurav Purohit, Maja Dolenc Novak, Aloha Meave, Sergio Trevethan, Rodrigo Cerci, Sandra Zier, Lucia Gotthardtová, Tomáš Jonszta, Timucin Altin, Cigdem Soydal, Chetan Patel, Gurpreet Gulati, Diana Paez, Maurizio Dondi, Ravi Kashyap

Functional versus anatomical approach in stable coronary artery disease patients: Perspective of low- and middle-income countries

Amalia Peix

Statistical issues associated with terminating a clinical trial due to slow enrollment

Charity J. Morgan

Arrhythmogenic ventricular cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death: Left or right?

Rachoin Rachoin, Bernard Abi Saleh, Bilal Mansour, Rayan Jo Rachwan, Wael AlJaroudi

Artifacts in Quantitative analysis of myocardial perfusion SPECT, using Cedars-Sinai QPS Software

Hadi Malek, Nahid Yaghoobi, Raheleh Hedayati

Gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging quality assurance in current and future practice

Kenneth J. Nichols, Andrew Van Tosh

Choosing exercise or pharmacologic stress imaging, or exercise ECG testing alone: How to decide

Jorge A. Gonzalez, George A. Beller

A promising carbon-11-labeled sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1-specific PET tracer for imaging vascular injury

Hongjun Jin, Hao Yang, Hui Liu, Yunxiao Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Adam J. Rosenberg, Yongjian Liu, Suzanne E. Lapi, Zhude Tu

Specificity vs versatility: A fine balance for novel targeted molecular imaging radiotracers

James T. Thackeray, Frank M. Bengel

Cardiac molecular imaging to track left ventricular remodeling in heart failure

Jamshid Shirani, Amitoj Singh, Sahil Agrawal, Vasken Dilsizian

Risk stratification for large artery or chronic coronary artery disease-related ischemic stroke in octogenarians undergoing exercise stress myocardial perfusion imaging: A cohort study

Athanasios Katsikis, Athanasios Theodorakos, Alexandros Drosatos, Konstantinos Konstantinou, Spyridon Papaioannou, Maria Koutelou

Evaluation of general-purpose collimators against high-resolution collimators with resolution recovery with a view to reducing radiation dose in myocardial perfusion SPECT: A preliminary phantom study

Ian S. Armstrong, Kimberley J. Saint, Christine M. Tonge, Parthiban Arumugam

Myocardial perfusion SPECT just keeps getting better and better

E. Gordon DePuey

Software-dependent processing variability in SPECT functional parameters: Clinical implications

Saurabh Malhotra, Prem Soman

What is the evidence? A call for scientific rigor

Raymond J. Gibbons

Review of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology in 2016. Part 1 of 2: Positron Emission Tomography, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance

Wael AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage

In vivo assessment of myocardial viability after acute myocardial infarction: A head-to-head comparison of the perfusable tissue index by PET and delayed contrast-enhanced CMR

Stefan A. J. Timmer, Paul F. A. Teunissen, Ibrahim Danad, Lourens F. H. J. Robbers, Pieter G. H. M. Raijmakers, Robin Nijveldt, Albert C. van Rossum, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, Niels van Royen, Paul Knaapen

Relationship between residual viable myocardium and LV remodeling post-MI: Only part of the story

Robert J. Gropler

The value of local normal limits in quantitative Thallium-201 CZT MPI SPECT

Bastien Gregoire, Géraldine Pina-Jomir, Laurence Bontemps, Marc Janier, Christian Scheiber

Accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging in detecting multivessel coronary artery disease: A cardiac CZT study

Alessia Gimelli, Riccardo Liga, Valerio Duce, Annette Kusch, Alberto Clemente, Paolo Marzullo

Have SPECT artifacts breathed their last?

Christopher L. Hansen

Visual identification of coronary calcifications on attenuation correction CT improves diagnostic accuracy of SPECT/CT myocardial perfusion imaging

Nicholas D. Patchett, Sumeet Pawar, Edward J. Miller

Simple multimodality imaging: An easy, rapid, and inexpensive approach to improve non-invasive test accuracy

Todd D. Miller, Martin Rodriguez-Porcel

Safety of vasodilator stress myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with elevated cardiac biomarkers

Mridula Rai, Alan W. Ahlberg, Julianna Marwell, Waseem Chaudhary, John A. Savino III, Eric L. Alter, Milena J. Henzlova, W. Lane Duvall

Safety of stress testing in patients with elevated cardiac biomarkers: Are all modalities created equal?

Rami Doukky, Yasmeen Golzar

Most patients are triaged using the emergency severity index

Amir Mirhaghi

Bone marrow hyperplasia detected by gated blood pool imaging

Tarun Jain, Alka Khadwal, Ashwani Sood, Renjith Kalathoorakath, Madan Parmar, Bhagwant Mittal

Spironolactone-induced bilateral gynecomastia in a man detected by SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

Ayman A. Farag, Efstathia Andrikopoulou, Fadi G. Hage

Early diagnosis of peri-prosthetic aortic root infection with gallium SPECT/CT prior to abscess development results in avoidance of surgery

Sonali R. Gnanenthiran, Malcolm Anastasius, Robert Russo, Leonard Kritharides

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