Our work as health professionals: “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” [Stan Lee]

Robert A. deKemp

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

Fadi G. Hage, Wael AlJaroudi

Nuclear cardiology in the literature: a selection of recent, original research papers

Vasvi Singh, Saurabh Malhotra

What Is This Image? 2020: Image 1 Result

Cyrus Sadeghi, Ronald G. Schwartz

What is this image? 2020: Image 2

Paul J. Cannon, MD (1933–2018)

George A. Beller

Reducing motion-correction-induced variability in 82rubidium myocardial blood-flow quantification

Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, Jonathan B. Moody, Tomoe Hagio, Richard L. Weinberg, James R. Corbett, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Edward P. Ficaro

Motion correction to enhance absolute myocardial blood flow quantitation by PET

John R. Votaw, René R. Sevag Packard

Quantification of myocardial blood flow with 11C-hydroxyephedrine dynamic PET: comparison with 15O-H2O PET

Yuji Hiroshima, Osamu Manabe, Masanao Naya, Yuuki Tomiyama, Keiichi Magota, Masahiko Obara, Tadao Aikawa, Noriko Oyama-Manabe, Keiichiro Yoshinaga, Kenji Hirata, Markus Kroenke, Nagara Tamaki, Chietsugu Katoh

Hybrid PET- and MR-driven attenuation correction for enhanced 18F-NaF and 18F-FDG quantification in cardiovascular PET/MR imaging

Nicolas A. Karakatsanis, Ronan Abgral, Maria Giovanna Trivieri, Marc R. Dweck, Philip M. Robson, Claudia Calcagno, Gilles Boeykens, Max L. Senders, Willem J. M. Mulder, Charalampos Tsoumpas, Zahi A. Fayad

PET-derived bone information from 18F-sodium fluoride: A perfect match for whole-body PET/MR attenuation correction?

Martin Lyngby Lassen, Piotr J. Slomka

Performance of 99mTc-aprotinin scintigraphy for diagnosing light chain (AL) cardiac amyloidosis confirmed by endomyocardial biopsy

Toru Awaya, Ryogo Minamimoto, Kentaro Iwama, Shuji Kubota, Masatoshi Hotta, Risen Hirai, Masaya Yamamoto, Osamu Okazaki, Hisao Hara, Yukio Hiroi, Michiaki Hiroe, Masao Moroi

Correction to: Performance of 99mTc-aprotinin scintigraphy for diagnosing light chain (AL) cardiac amyloidosis confirmed by endomyocardial biopsy

Toru Awaya, Ryogo Minamimoto, Kentaro Iwama, Shuji Kubota, Masatoshi Hotta, Risen Hirai, Masaya Yamamoto, Osamu Okazaki, Hisao Hara, Yukio Hiroi, Michiaki Hiroe, Masao Moroi

99mTc-aprotinin imaging in cardiac amyloidosis. Make an old tool new again?

Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Andor W. J. M. Glaudemans, Walter Noordzij, Hans L. A. Nienhuis, Bouke P. C. Hazenberg

Could myocardial viability be related to left ventricular dyssynchrony? Simultaneous evaluation by gated SPECT-MPI

Kenia Padrón, Amalia Peix, Lázaro Cabrera, José Garcia, Lydia Rodriguez, Regla Carrillo, Erick Mena, Yoel Fernandez

Is myocardial viability related to left ventricular dyssynchrony?

Chetan D. Patel, Vivek Baghel

Review of cardiovascular imaging in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2019: Single-photon emission computed tomography

Fadi G. Hage, Wael A. AlJaroudi

Upper reference limits of transient ischemic dilation ratio for different protocols on new-generation cadmium zinc telluride cameras: A report from REFINE SPECT registry

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

Refining practice: TID metrics for CZT systems

Eliana Reyes

Ventricular peak emptying and filling rates measured by gated tomographic radionuclide angiography using a cadmium–zinc–telluride SPECT camera in chemotherapy-naïve cancer patients

Naja Liv Hansen, Christian Haarmark, Bo Zerahn

Diastolic assessment by CZT-SPECT: Could it be the next best thing for the detection of subclinical chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity?

Efstathia Andrikopoulou

CME INSTRUCTIONS: Nuclear cardiology in the context of multimodality imaging to detect cardiac toxicity from cancer therapeutics: Established and emerging methods

Nuclear cardiology in the context of multimodality imaging to detect cardiac toxicity from cancer therapeutics: Established and emerging methods

Aaron Soufer, Chi Liu, Mariana L. Henry, Lauren A. Baldassarre

Software reproducibility of myocardial blood flow and flow reserve quantification in ischemic heart disease: A 13N-ammonia PET study

Andrea G. Monroy-Gonzalez, Luis Eduardo Juarez-Orozco, Chunlei Han, Issi R. Vedder, David Vállez García, Ronald Borra, Piotr J. Slomka, Sergey V. Nesterov, Juhani Knuuti, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Erick Alexanderson-Rosas

Relative disagreement among different software packages in PET-flow quantitation: An appeal for consistency

Thomas H. Schindler, Ines Valenta

Reproducibility of LVEF, LV volumes, and LV mass between Rubidium-82 PET/CT scans in young healthy volunteers using two commercially available software packages

Christina Byrne, Andreas Kjaer, Julie Lyng Forman, Philip Hasbak

Striving for consistency in the measurement of LVEF and left ventricular volume

Patrycja Galazka, Steven Port

Quantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow and extracellular volume fraction using 68Ga-DOTA-PET: A feasibility and validation study in large animals

Carlos Velasco, Adriana Mota-Cobián, Rubén A. Mota, Juan Pellico, Fernando Herranz, Carlos Galán-Arriola, Borja Ibáñez, Jesús Ruiz-Cabello, Jesús Mateo, Samuel España

First comparison of performances between the new whole-body cadmium–zinc–telluride SPECT-CT camera and a dedicated cardiac CZT camera for myocardial perfusion imaging: Analysis of phantom and patients

Maxime Morelle, Dimitri Bellevre, Claude Hossein-Foucher, Alain Manrique, Alban Bailliez

Cardiac myocardial perfusion imaging with new SPECT cameras: Comparing apples and oranges

R. Glenn Wells, Terrence D. Ruddy

Effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy on septal perfusion and septal thickening: Association with left ventricular function, reverse remodelling and dyssynchrony

C. Patel, M. Kalaivani, G. Karthikeyan, A. Peix, A. Kumar, T. Massardo, A. Jiménez-Heffernan, C. T. Mesquita, M. Pabon, S. Butt, E. Alexanderson, V. Marin, O. Morozova, D. Paez, E. V. Garcia

Refining the role of gated SPECT for predicting clinical response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: Are we using the right tool at the wrong time?

Dennis A. Calnon

Acquisition of dynamic N-13 ammonia PET for myocardial blood flow quantification

Kyeong Won Kang, Jong Sang Kim, Sang-Geon Cho, Jahae Kim, Ho-Chun Song

When you are the first-in-the-country fellow in a fellowship program that is as unheard of as the disease itself: cardiac amyloidosis fellowship

Syed Bukhari

Cardiac uptake patterns in routine 18F-FDG PET-CT scans: A pictorial review

Khushboo Gupta, Rahul Jadhav, Rameshwar Prasad, Sumeet Virmani

Does fractional flow reserve overestimate severity of LAD lesions?

Shu Yokota, Nanette M. Borren, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Mohamed Mouden, Jorik R. Timmer, Siert Knollema, Pieter L. Jager

Fractional flow reserve as the standard of reference: All that glistens is not gold

Dominik C. Benz, Andreas A. Giannopoulos

Accuracy of cardiac functional parameters measured from gated radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging in mice

Annika Hess, Stephan G. Nekolla, Martin Meier, Frank M. Bengel, James T. Thackeray

Evaluation of cardiac function by nuclear imaging in preclinical studies

Antti Saraste, Mia Ståhle, Anne Roivainen

Complementary pre-operative risk assessment using coronary computed tomography angiography and nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging in non-cardiac surgery: A VISION-CTA sub-study

Taylor F. Dowsley, Tej Sheth, Benjamin J. W. Chow

Approaching perioperative cardiac risk: Forging new strategies against an old enemy

Yasmeen Golzar

Clinical effectiveness of an outpatient pathway for low-risk chest pain emergency department visits

Besiana Liti, Felix Krainski, Andre Gabriel, Brett Hiendlmeyr, Akrivi Manola, William Perucki, Gene Pershwitz, Ajay Kumar, W. Lane Duvall

All Together Now: Synthesizing Evidence-Based Protocols to Simplify and Expedite Emergency Department Evaluation of Low-Risk Patients

Nishant R. Shah, Marcio S. Bittencourt, David E. Winchester

Two-hour postload plasma glucose and pigment epithelium-derived factor levels are markers of coronary artery inflammation in type 2 diabetic patients

Nobuhiro Tahara, Yoshikazu Nitta, Munehisa Bekki, Atsuko Tahara, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Yoichi Sugiyama, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Tomohisa Nakamura, Jiahui Sun, Seiji Kurata, Kiminori Fujimoto, Toshi Abe, Takanori Matsui, Sho-ichi Yamagishi, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Novel markers of coronary inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes

J. P. M. Andrews, M. R. Dweck

Noninvasive estimation of quantitative myocardial blood flow with Tc-99m MIBI by a compartment model analysis in rat

Atsutaka Okizaki, Michihiro Nakayama, Kaori Nakajima, Osuke Fujimoto, Shinobu Oshikiri, Miho Koike-Satake, Yuto Nakahara

Myocardial blood flow quantification conventional single photon tracers: Yet another critical appraisal

Stephan G. Nekolla, Christoph Rischpler

Correction to: Early nuclear stress testing after CABG: The new standard or too soon to tell?

Jared Hornberger, Edward Hulten

Correction to: Staged testing as a solution to the challenges of testing lower risk patients

Venkatesh L. Murthy, Khurram Nasir

Correction to: Left ventricular dyssynchrony and abnormalities in wall motion, assessed by gated-SPECT as ischemic auxiliary markers

Jorge Camilletti, Juan Erriest, Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, Salvador Hernández-Sandoval, Mónica Redolatti, Luis Cartasegna, Víctor Arregui, Gustavo Vigo, Erick Alexanderson-Rosas

Correction to: Risk stratification with vasodilator stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with elevated cardiac biomarkers

Shreyas Gowdar, Alan W. Ahlberg, Mridula Rai, William H. Perucki, Kevin D. Felpel, John A. Savino III, Eric L. Alter, Milena J. Henzlova, W. Lane Duvall

Correction to: Patient-specific SPECT imaging protocols to standardize image noise

Sarah G. Cuddy-Walsh, Duncan C. Clackdoyle, Jennifer M. Renaud, R. Glenn Wells

Correction to: Aortic valve and coronary 18F-sodium fluoride activity: a common cause?

Rong Bing, Marc R. Dweck

Correction to: Deciphering post-infarct inflammation: Should it heal, would it hurt?

Matthias Nahrendorf, Antonio Abbate, Jagat Narula

Incidental finding of COVID-19 pulmonary infiltrates on SPECT/CT attenuation correction CT

William Hindle-Katel, Joyce Oen-Hsiao, Erich Lussnig, Edward J. Miller

Lurking in the shadows: Asymptomatic bilateral lung involvement with novel corona virus 2019 identified on myocardial perfusion SPECT CT: Implications for interpreting physicians

Karthik Ananthasubramaniam, Vanji Karthikeyan

Clinical hallmarks making diagnosis of infective endocarditis

Atsuko Tahara, Nobuhiro Tahara, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Munehisa Bekki, Yoichi Sugiyama, Jiahui Sun, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Non-biopsy diagnosis of familial amyloid cardiomyopathy

Laroussi Mohamed-Salem, Tatiana Moreno-Monsalve, Mª Isabel Castellón-Sánchez, Mª Antonia Claver-Valderas, Domingo Pascual-Figal

Pericardial constriction in double-hit lymphoma

Luke P. Dawson, Derk Pol, Sevastjan Kranz, Dinesh Sivaratnam

Right-sided endocarditis on Contegra tube in a complex cianotic congenital heart disease

Aleix Olivella, María Nazarena Pizzi, Laura Dos-Subirà, Santiago Aguadé-Bruix, Núria Fernández-Hidalgo, Hug Cuéllar-Calabria, Albert Roque

Too much or not enough; balancing insulin levels in a diabetic patient sent for 18F-FDG PET/CT of prosthetic heart valve endocarditis

A. M. Scholtens, E. A. M. Peters Rit, H. J. Brouwer, M. E. Sanson-van Praag, S. Velthuis

18F-FDG-PET/CT in diagnosis of Q fever endocarditis

Célia Marques Domingues, Maria João Ferreira, Rodolfo Silva, Valdirene Gonçalves, António Marinho Silva, Lino Gonçalves

99mTc-labelled bone tracer myocardial quantification: About correlation with heart function

Cyrille Blondet, Olivier Schaeffer, Fabrice Hubelé, Gérald-José Roul, Alessio Imperiale, Izzie Jacques Namer

Duration of proton pump inhibitor abstinence before MPI

Ashwani Sood, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Harpreet Singh

Duration of proton pump inhibitor abstinence before myocardial perfusion scintigraphy

Joseph C. Lee, Yong S. Wee

Exercise stress testing: Time to restart in nuclear cardiology?

G. Angelidis, V. Valotassiou, D. Psimadas, P. Georgoulias

The new normal

Sharmila Dorbala