2016 Award Recipients

2016 Marc Tetalman Award       Thomas Hope, MD

2016 Cassen Award                   H. William Strauss, MD, FACNM

 

2016 Alavi–Mandell Awards for Articles Published in 2015

 

Comprehensive Radionuclide Esophagogastrointestinal Transit Study: Methodology, Reference Values, and Initial Clinical Experience

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:721–727.

Alexander J. Antoniou, Shreya Raja, Riham El-Khouli, Esther Mena, Martin A. Lodge, Richard L. Wahl, John O. Clarke, Pankaj Pasricha, and Harvey A. Ziessman

Division of Nuclear Medicine, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

 

Prognostic Value of Pretherapeutic Tumor-to-Blood Standardized Uptake Ratio in Patients with Esophageal Carcinoma

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1150–1156.

Rebecca Bütof, Frank Hofheinz, Klaus Zöphel, Tobias Stadelmann, Julia Schmollack, Christina Jentsch, Steffen Löck, Jörg Kotzerke, Michael Baumann, and Jörg van den Hoff

Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

 

¹²³I-Iododexetimide Preferentially Binds to the Muscarinic Receptor Subtype M₁ In Vivo

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:317–322.

Geor Bakker, Wilhelmina A. Vingerhoets, Jan–Peter van Wieringen, Kora de Bruin, Jos Eersels, Jan de Jong, Youssef Chahid, Bart P. Rutten, Susan DuBois, Megan Watson, Adrian J. Mogg, Hongling Xiao, Michael Crabtree, David A. Collier, Christian C. Felder, Vanessa N. Barth, Lisa M. Broad, Oswald J. Bloemen, Thérèse A. van Amelsvoort, and Jan Booij

Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

 

A Parallel-Cone Collimator for High-Energy SPECT

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:476–482.

Casper Beijst, Mattijs Elschot, Max A. Viergever, and Hugo W.A.M de Jong

Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Preclinical Evaluation of a Tailor-Made DOTA-Conjugated PSMA Inhibitor with Optimized Linker Moiety for Imaging and Endoradiotherapy of Prostate Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:914–920.

Martina Benešová, Martin Schäfer, Ulrike Bauder-Wüst, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Clemens Kratochwil, Walter Mier, Uwe Haberkorn, Klaus Kopka, and Matthias Eder

Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

 

Radiation Dosimetry of the Fibrin-Binding Probe ⁶⁴Cu-FBP8 and Its Feasibility for PET Imaging of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism in Rats

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1088–1093.

Francesco Blasi, Bruno L. Oliveira, Tyson A. Rietz, Nicholas J. Rotile, Helen Day, Pratap C. Naha, David P. Cormode, David Izquierdo-Garcia, Ciprian Catana, and Peter Caravan

Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts

 

Impact of Personal Characteristics and Technical Factors on Quantification of Sodium ¹⁸F-Fluoride Uptake in Human Arteries: Prospective Evaluation of Healthy Subjects

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1534–1540.

Björn Alexander Blomberg, Anders Thomassen, Pim A. de Jong, Jane A. Simonsen, Marnix G.E.H. Lam, Anne L. Nielsen, Hans Mickley, Willem P.T.M. Mali, Abass Alavi, and Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

 

PET Imaging of Macrophage Mannose Receptor–Expressing Macrophages in Tumor Stroma Using ¹⁸F-Radiolabeled Camelid Single-Domain Antibody Fragments

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1265–1271.

Anneleen Blykers, Steve Schoonooghe, Catarina Xavier, Kevin D’hoe, Damya Laoui, Matthias D’Huyvetter, Ilse Vaneycken, Frederik Cleeren, Guy Bormans, Johannes Heemskerk, Geert Raes, Patrick De Baetselier, Tony Lahoutte, Nick Devoogdt, Jo A. Van Ginderachter, and Vicky Caveliers

In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging laboratory (ICMI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

 

Photoacoustic Tomography Detects Early Vessel Regression and Normalization During Ovarian Tumor Response to the Antiangiogenic Therapy Trebananib

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1942–1947.

Sarah E. Bohndiek, Laura S. Sasportas, Steven Machtaler, Jesse V. Jokerst, Sharon Hori, and Sanjiv S. Gambhir

Bio-X Program and Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

 

15-Year Experience of ¹⁸F-FDG PET Imaging in Response Assessment and Restaging After Definitive Treatment of Merkel Cell Carcinoma

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1328–1333.

Keelan Byrne, Shankar Siva, Lori Chait, Jason Callahan, Mathias Bressel, Matthew Seel, Michael P. MacManus, and Rodney J. Hicks

Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

 

A Novel ¹¹¹In-Labeled Anti–Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Nanobody for Targeted SPECT/CT Imaging of Prostate Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1094–1099.

Kristell L.S. Chatalic, Joke Veldhoven-Zweistra, Michiel Bolkestein, Sander Hoeben, Gerben A. Koning, Otto C. Boerman, Marion de Jong, and Wytske M. van Weerden

Department of Urology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Relative ¹¹C-PiB Delivery as a Proxy of Relative CBF: Quantitative Evaluation Using Single-Session ¹⁵O-Water and ¹¹C-PiB PET

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1199–1205.

Yin J. Chen, Bedda L. Rosario, Wenzhu Mowrey, Charles M. Laymon, Xueling Lu, Oscar L. Lopez, William E. Klunk, Brian J. Lopresti, Chester A. Mathis, and Julie C. Price

Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

In Vitro and In Vivo Application of Radiolabeled Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor Ligands in Breast Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:752–757.

Simone U. Dalm, John W.M. Martens, Anieta M. Sieuwerts, Carolien H.M. van Deurzen, Stuart J. Koelewijn, Erik de Blois, Theodosia Maina, Berthold A. Nock, Luc Brunel, Jean-Alain Fehrentz, Jean Martinez, Marion de Jong, and Marleen Melis

Departments of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Clinical Relevance of Targeting the Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor, Somatostatin Receptor 2, or Chemokine C-X-C Motif Receptor 4 in Breast Cancer for Imaging and Therapy

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1487–1493.

Simone U. Dalm, Anieta M. Sieuwerts, Maxime P. Look, Marleen Melis, Carolien H.M. van Deurzen, John A. Foekens, Marion de Jong, and John W.M. Martens

Departments of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Preclinical Evaluation and Quantification of ¹⁸F-FPEB as a Radioligand for PET Imaging of the Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1954–1959.

Bart de Laat, Gil Leurquin-Sterk, Sofie Celen, Guy Bormans, Michel Koole, Koen Van Laere, and Cindy Casteels

KU Leuven–University of Leuven, MoSAIC, Molecular Small Animal Imaging Center, Leuven, Belgium

 

Evaluation of Hybrid ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA Ligand PET/CT in 248 Patients with Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:668–674.

Matthias Eiber, Tobias Maurer, Michael Souvatzoglou, Ambros J. Beer, Alexander Ruffani, Bernhard Haller, Frank-Philipp Graner, Hubert Kübler, Uwe Haberhorn, Michael Eisenhut, Hans-Jürgen Wester, Jürgen E. Gschwend, and Markus Schwaiger

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

 

Motion Correction Strategies for Integrated PET/MR

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:261–269.

Sebastian Fürst, Robert Grimm, Inki Hong, Michael Souvatzoglou, Michael E. Casey, Markus Schwaiger, Stephan G. Nekolla, and Sibylle I. Ziegler

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

 

Quantitative Analysis of ¹⁸F-(E)-N-(3-Iodoprop-2-Enyl)-2β-Carbofluoroethoxy-3β-(4′-Methyl-Phenyl) Nortropane Binding to the Dopamine Transporter in Parkinson Disease

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:714–720.

Patrik Fazio, Per Svenningsson, Anton Forsberg, Erik G. Jönsson, Nahid Amini, Ryuji Nakao, Sangram Nag, Christer Halldin, Lars Farde, and Andrea Varrone

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Stockholm, Sweden

 

PET Response Criteria in Solid Tumors Predicts Progression-Free Survival and Time to Local or Distant Progression After Chemotherapy with Regional Hyperthermia for Soft-Tissue Sarcoma

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:530–537.

Wolfgang P. Fendler, Mona Lehmann, Andrei Todica, Ken Herrmann, Thomas Knösel, Martin K. Angele, Hans Roland Dürr, Josefine Rauch, Peter Bartenstein, Clemens C. Cyran, Marcus Hacker, and Lars H. Lindner

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

 

¹⁸F-NaF Uptake by Atherosclerotic Plaque on PET/CT Imaging: Inverse Correlation Between Calcification Density and Mineral Metabolic Activity

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1019–1023.

Francesco Fiz, Silvia Morbelli, Arnoldo Piccardo, Matteo Bauckneht, Giulia Ferrarazzo, Emanuela Pestarino, Manlio Cabria, Alessia Democrito, Mattia Riondato, Giampiero Villavecchia, Cecilia Marini, and Gianmario Sambuceti

Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Health Sciences, IRCCS San Martino–IST, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

 

Discrimination Between Brown and White Adipose Tissue Using a 2-Point Dixon Water–Fat Separation Method in Simultaneous PET/MRI

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1742–1747.

Daniela Franz, Dimitrios C. Karampinos, Ernst J. Rummeny, Michael Souvatzoglou, Ambros J. Beer, Stephan G. Nekolla, Markus Schwaiger, and Matthias Eiber

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

 

Quantification of ¹¹C-Laniquidar Kinetics in the Brain

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1730–1735.

Femke E. Froklage, Ronald Boellaard, Esther Bakker, N. Harry Hendrikse, Jaap C. Reijneveld, Robert C. Schuit, Albert D. Windhorst, Patrick Schober, Bart N.M. van Berckel, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, and Andrey Postnov

Department of Neurology, Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Heemstede, The Netherlands

 

α-Imaging Confirmed Efficient Targeting of CD45-Positive Cells After ²¹¹At-Radioimmunotherapy for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1766–1773.

Sofia H.L. Frost, Brian W. Miller, Tom A. Bäck, Erlinda B. Santos, Donald K. Hamlin, Sue E. Knoblaugh, Shani L. Frayo, Aimee L. Kenoyer, Rainer Storb, Oliver W. Press, D. Scott Wilbur, John M. Pagel, and Brenda M. Sandmaier

Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

 

In Vivo Imaging of Natural Killer Cell Trafficking in Tumors

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1575–1580.

Filippo Galli, Anna Serafina Rapisarda, Helena Stabile, Gaurav Malviya, Isabella Manni, Elena Bonanno, Giulia Piaggio, Angela Gismondi, Angela Santoni, and Alberto Signore

Nuclear Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, “Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy

 

Multimodal Partial-Volume Correction: Application to ¹⁸F-Fluoride PET/CT Bone Metastases Studies

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1408–1414.

Elisabetta Grecchi, Jim O’Doherty, Mattia Veronese, Charalampos Tsoumpas, Gary J. Cook, and Federico E. Turkheimer

Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

 

Simultaneous Hyperpolarized ¹³C-Pyruvate MRI and ¹⁸F-FDG PET (HyperPET) in 10 Dogs with Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1786–1792.

Henrik Gutte, Adam E. Hansen, Majbrit M.E. Larsen, Sofie Rahbek, Sarah T. Henriksen, Helle H. Johannesen, Jan Ardenkjaer-Larsen, Annemarie T. Kristensen, Liselotte Højgaard, and Andreas Kjær

Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET and Cluster for Molecular Imaging, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Estimation of Tumor Volumes by ¹¹C-MeAIB and ¹⁸F-FDG PET in an Orthotopic Glioblastoma Rat Model

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1562–1568.

Bo Halle, Helge Thisgaard, Svend Hvidsten, Johan H. Dam, Charlotte Aaberg-Jessen, Anne S. Thykjær, Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen, Mette K. Schulz, Claus Andersen, and Bjarne W. Kristensen

Department of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

 

Imaging of Secreted Extracellular Periostin, an Important Marker of Invasion in the Tumor Microenvironment in Esophageal Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1246–1251.

Pedram Heidari, Shadi A. Esfahani, Nazife S. Turker, Gabrielle Wong, Timothy C. Wang, Anil K. Rustgi, and Umar Mahmood

Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

 

^99mTc SPECT/CT Versus Planar Lymphoscintigraphy for Preoperative Sentinel Lymph Node Detection in Cervical Cancer: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:675–680.

Jacob P. Hoogendam, Wouter B. Veldhuis, Monique G.G. Hobbelink, René H.M. Verheijen, Maurice A.A.J. van den Bosch, and Ronald P. Zweemer

Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Metabolic Tumor Volume on ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Improves Preoperative Identification of High-Risk Endometrial Carcinoma Patients

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1191–1198.

Jenny A. Husby, Bernt C. Reitan, Martin Biermann, Jone Trovik, Line Bjørge, Inger J. Magnussen, Øyvind O. Salvesen, Helga B. Salvesen, and Ingfrid S. Haldorsen

Center for PET/NM and Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

 

Systematic Evaluation of Tumoral ^99mTc-MAA Uptake Using SPECT and SPECT/CT in 502 Patients Before ⁹⁰Y Radioembolization

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:333–338.

Harun Ilhan, Anna Goritschan, Phillip Paprottka, Tobias F. Jakobs, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Peter Bartenstein, Marcus Hacker, and Alexander R. Haug

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

 

Predictive Value of ^99mTc-MAA SPECT for ⁹⁰Y-Labeled Resin Microsphere Distribution in Radioembolization of Primary and Secondary Hepatic Tumors

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1654–1660.

Harun Ilhan, Anna Goritschan, Philipp Paprottka, Tobias F. Jakobs, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Andrei Todica, Peter Bartenstein, Marcus Hacker, and Alexander R. Haug

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

 

Radiation Treatment of Lymph Node Recurrence from Prostate Cancer: Is ¹¹C-Choline PET/CT Predictive of Survival Outcomes?

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1836–1842.

Elena Incerti, Andrei Fodor, Paola Mapelli, Claudio Fiorino, Pierpaolo Alongi, Margarita Kirienko, Giampiero Giovacchini, Elena Busnardo, Luigi Gianolli, Nadia Di Muzio, and Maria Picchio

Department of Nuclear Medicine, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

 

Ultra-High-Sensitivity Submillimeter Mouse SPECT

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:470–475.

Oleksandra Ivashchenko, Frans van der Have, Marlies C. Goorden, Ruud M. Ramakers, and Freek J. Beekman

Section of Radiation, Detection, and Medical Imaging, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

 

TSPO Imaging in Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Direct Comparison Between ¹²³I-CLINDE SPECT, ¹⁸F-FET PET, and Gadolinium-Enhanced MR Imaging

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1386–1390.

Per Jensen, Ling Feng, Ian Law, Claus Svarer, Gitte M. Knudsen, Jens D. Mikkelsen, Robin de Nijs, Vibeke A. Larsen, Agnete Dyssegaard, Gerda Thomsen, Walter Fischer, Denis Guilloteau, and Lars H. Pinborg

Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Improving Patient Selection for ¹⁸F-FDG PET Scanning in the Staging of Gastric Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:523–529.

Yui Kaneko, William K Murray, Emma Link, Rodney J. Hicks, and Cuong Duong

Department of Surgical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 

Effects of Intratumoral Inflammatory Process on ¹⁸F-FDG Uptake: Pathologic and Comparative Study with ¹⁸F-Fluoro-α-Methyltyrosine PET/CT in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:16–21.

Mai Kim, Arifudin Achmad, Tetsuya Higuchi, Yukiko Arisaka, Hideaki Yokoo, Satoshi Yokoo, and Yoshito Tsushima

Department of Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

 

Comparison of ¹⁸F-Labeled Fluoroalkylphosphonium Cations with¹³N-NH₃ for PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1581–1586.

Dong-Yeon Kim, Hyeon Sik Kim, Sybille Reder, Jin Hai Zheng, Michael Herz, Takahiro Higuchi, Ayoung Pyo, Hee-Seung Bom, Markus Schwaiger, and Jung-Joon Min

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

 

β-Radioluminescence Imaging: A Comparative Evaluation with Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1458–1464.

Martin T. King, Colin M. Carpenter, Conroy Sun, Xiaowei Ma, Quynh-Thu Le, John B. Sunwoo, Zhen Cheng, Guillem Pratx, and Lei Xing

Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

 

Prefrontal Hypometabolism in Alzheimer Disease Is Related to Longitudinal Amyloid Accumulation in Remote Brain Regions

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:399–404.

Elisabeth Klupp, Timo Grimmer, Masoud Tahmasian, Christian Sorg, Igor Yakushev, Behrooz H. Yousefi, Alexander Drzezga, and Stefan Förster

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

 

A Promising Future: Comparable Imaging Capability of MRI-Compatible Silicon Photomultiplier and Conventional Photosensor Preclinical PET Systems

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1948–1953.

Aron K. Krizsan, Imre Lajtos, Magnus Dahlbom, Freddie Daver, Miklos Emri, Sandor A. Kis, Gabor Opposits, Laszlo Pohubi, Norbert Potari, Gyula Hegyesi, Gabor Kalinka, Janos Gal, Jozsef Imrek, Ferenc Nagy, Ivan Valastyan, Beata Kiraly, Jozsef Molnar, Delfo Sanfilippo, and Laszlo Balkay

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical Center, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

 

In Vivo Biodistribution of No-Carrier-Added 6-¹⁸F-Fluoro-3,4-Dihydroxy-l-Phenylalanine (¹⁸F-DOPA), Produced by a New Nucleophilic Substitution Approach, Compared with Carrier-Added ¹⁸F-DOPA, Prepared by Conventional Electrophilic Substitution

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:106–112.

Willem-Jan Kuik, Ido P. Kema, Adrienne H. Brouwers, Rolf Zijlma, Kiel D. Neumann, Rudi A.J.O. Dierckx, Stephen G. DiMagno, and Philip H. Elsinga

Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

 

Cortical Laminar Binding of PET Amyloid and Tau Tracers in Alzheimer Disease

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:270–273.

Yi Li, Wai Tsui, Henry Rusinek, Tracy Butler, Lisa Mosconi, Elizabeth Pirraglia, David Mozley, Shankar Vallabhajosula, Ryuichi Harada, Shozo Furumoto, Katsutoshi Furukawa, Hiroyuki Arai, Yukitsuka Kudo, Nobuyuki Okamura, and Mony J. de Leon

Center for Brain Health, New York University, New York, New York

 

Predictive Value of Early-Stage Uptake of 3′-Deoxy-3′-¹⁸F-Fluorothymidine in Cancer Cells Treated with Charged Particle Irradiation

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:945–950.

Chao Lin, Kyo Kume, Tetsuya Mori, Miguel E. Martinez, Hidehiko Okazawa, and Yasushi Kiyono

Biomedical Imaging Research Center, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

 

Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients More Than 60 Years Old Paradoxically Show an Increased Life Expectancy

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:190–195.

Tobias Markus Maier, Otmar Schober, Joachim Gerß, Dennis Görlich, Christian Wenning, Michael Schaefers, Burkhard Riemann, and Alexis Vrachimis

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

 

Quantification of β-Amyloidosis and rCBF with Dedicated PET, 7 T MR Imaging, and High-Resolution Microscopic MR Imaging at 16.4 T in APP23 Mice

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1593–1599.

Florian C. Maier, Marianne D. Keller, Daniel Bukala, Benjamin Bender, Julia G. Mannheim, Ian M. Brereton, Graham J. Galloway, and Bernd J. Pichler

Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

 

PET/CT-Derived Whole-Body and Bone Marrow Dosimetry of ⁸⁹Zr-Cetuximab

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:249–254.

Nikolaos E. Makris, Ronald Boellaard, Arthur van Lingen, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, Guus A.M.S. van Dongen, Henk M. Verheul, Catharina W. Menke, and Marc C. Huisman

Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Practical PET Respiratory Motion Correction in Clinical PET/MR

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:890–896.

Richard Manber, Kris Thielemans, Brian F. Hutton, Anna Barnes, Sébastien Ourselin, Simon Arridge, Celia O’Meara, Simon Wan, and David Atkinson

Division of Medicine, Centre for Medical Imaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom

 

Quantification of Dynamic ¹¹C-Phenytoin PET Studies

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1372–1377.

Syahir Mansor, Ronald Boellaard, Femke E. Froklage, Esther D.M. Bakker, Maqsood Yaqub, Rob A. Voskuyl, Lothar A. Schwarte, Joost Verbeek, Albert D. Windhorst, and Adriaan Lammertsma

Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT and Lung Cancer: Value of Fourth and Subsequent Posttherapy Follow-up Scans for Patient Management

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:204–208.

Charles Marcus, Vasavi Paidpally, Alexander Antoniou, Atif Zaheer, Richard L. Wahl, and Rathan M. Subramaniam

Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

 

¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT and Colorectal Cancer: Value of Fourth and Subsequent Posttherapy Follow-up Scans for Patient Management

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:989–994.

Charles Marcus, Wael Marashdeh, Se Jin Ahn, Mehdi Taghipour, and Rathan M. Subramaniam

Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

 

Prospective Comparison of ¹⁸F-Fluoromethylcholine Versus ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Patients Who Have Rising PSA After Curative Treatment and Are Being Considered for Targeted Therapy

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1185–1190.

Joshua J. Morigi, Phillip D. Stricker, Pim J. van Leeuwen, Reuben Tang, Bao Ho, Quoc Nguyen, George Hruby, Gerald Fogarty, Raj Jagavkar, Andrew Kneebone, Adam Hickey, Stefano Fanti, Lisa Tarlinton, and Louise Emmett

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Vincent’s Public Hospital, Sydney, Australia

 

Correlation of BRAFV600E Mutation and Glucose Metabolism in Thyroid Cancer Patients: An ¹⁸F-FDG PET Study

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:662–667.

James Nagarajah, Alan L. Ho, R. Michael Tuttle, Wolfgang A. Weber, and Ravinder K. Grewal

Molecular Imaging and Therapy Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York

 

Mapping α₂ Adrenoceptors of the Human Brain with ¹¹C-Yohimbine

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:392–398.

Adjmal Nahimi, Steen Jakobsen, Ole L. Munk, Kim Vang, Jenny A. Phan, Anders Rodell, and Albert Gjedde

Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospitals, Aarhus, Denmark

 

Integrated ¹⁸F-FDG PET/MR Imaging in the Assessment of Cardiac Masses: A Pilot Study

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:255–260.

Felix Nensa, Ercan Tezgah, Thorsten D. Poeppel, Christoph J. Jensen, Juliane Schelhorn, Jens Köhler, Philipp Heusch, Oliver Bruder, Thomas Schlosser, and Kai Nassenstein

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg–Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Multimodal Molecular Imaging Reveals High Target Uptake and Specificity of ¹¹¹In- and ⁶⁸Ga-Labeled Fibrin-Binding Probes for Thrombus Detection in Rats

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1587–1592.

Bruno L. Oliveira, Francesco Blasi, Tyson A. Rietz, Nicholas J. Rotile, Helen Day, and Peter Caravan

Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts

 

Preclinical Kinetic Analysis of the Caspase-3/7 PET Tracer ¹⁸F-C-SNAT: Quantifying the Changes in Blood Flow and Tumor Retention After Chemotherapy

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1415–1421.

Mikael Palner, Bin Shen, Jongho Jeon, Jianguo Lin, Frederick T. Chin, and Jianghong Rao

Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

 

Characterizing POEMS Syndrome with ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1334–1337.

Qingqing Pan, Jian Li, Fang Li, Daobin Zhou, and Zhaohui Zhu

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

 

Whole-Body PET/MR Imaging: Quantitative Evaluation of a Novel Model-Based MR Attenuation Correction Method Including Bone

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1061–1066.

Daniel H. Paulus, Harald H. Quick, Christian Geppert, Matthias Fenchel, Yiqiang Zhan, Gerardo Hermosillo, David Faul, Fernando Boada, Kent P. Friedman, and Thomas Koesters

Institute of Medical Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

 

Multicenter Validation of a Shortened Gastric-Emptying Protocol

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:873–876.

Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau, Oyebola O. Sogbein, Xuan Pham, Jason Hao, Jenna Le, Mark D. Strober, Michael L. Middleton, Janusz Kikut, Leonard M. Freeman, and Lionel S. Zuckier

The Ottawa Hospital, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

PET Imaging of Tumor-Associated Macrophages with ⁸⁹Zr-Labeled High-Density Lipoprotein Nanoparticles

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1272–1277.

Carlos Pérez-Medina, Jun Tang, Dalya Abdel-Atti, Brandon Hogstad, Miriam Merad, Edward A. Fisher, Zahi A. Fayad, Jason S. Lewis, Willem J.M. Mulder, and Thomas Reiner

Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, CIBERES, Madrid, Spain

 

Safety of a Scout Dose Preceding Hepatic Radioembolization with¹⁶⁶Ho Microspheres

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:817–823.

Jip F. Prince, Rob van Rooij, Gijsbert H. Bol, Hugo W.A.M. de Jong, Maurice A.A.J. van den Bosch, and Marnix G.E.H. Lam

Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Evaluation of ¹⁸F-Fluoride PET/MR and PET/CT in Patients with Foot Pain of Unclear Cause

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:430–435.

Isabel Rauscher, Ambros J. Beer, Christoph Schaeffeler, Michael Souvatzoglou, Moritz Crönlein, Chlodwig Kirchhoff, Gunther Sandmann, Sebastian Fürst, Robert Kilger, Michael Herz, Sybille Ziegler, Markus Schwaiger, and Matthias Eiber

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

 

¹⁸F-DCFBC PET/CT for PSMA-Based Detection and Characterization of Primary Prostate Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1003–1010.

Steven P. Rowe, Kenneth L. Gage, Sheila F. Faraj, Katarzyna J. Macura, Toby C. Cornish, Nilda Gonzalez-Roibon, Gunes Guner, Enrico Munari, Alan W. Partin, Christian P. Pavlovich, Misop Han, H. Ballentine Carter, Trinity J. Bivalacqua, Amanda Blackford, Daniel Holt, Robert F. Dannals, George J. Netto, Martin A. Lodge, Ronnie C. Mease, Martin G. Pomper, and Steve Y. Cho

The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland

 

Dosimetry and First Clinical Evaluation of the New ¹⁸F-Radiolabeled Bombesin Analogue BAY 864367 in Patients with Prostate Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:372–378.

Bert-Ram Sah, Irene A. Burger, Roger Schibli, Matthias Friebe, Ludger Dinkelborg, Keith Graham, Sandra Borkowski, Claudia Bacher-Stier, Ray Valencia, Ananth Srinivasan, Thomas F. Hany, Linjing Mu, Peter J. Wild, and Niklaus G. Schaefer

Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Medical Radiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Immuno-PET of Murine T Cell Reconstitution Postadoptive Stem Cell Transplantation Using Anti-CD4 and Anti-CD8 Cys-Diabodies

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1258–1264.

Richard Tavaré, Melissa N. McCracken, Kirstin A. Zettlitz, Felix B. Salazar, Tove Olafsen, Owen N. Witte, and Anna M. Wu

Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

 

Phantom and Clinical Evaluation of the Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithm Q.Clear on an LYSO PET/CT System

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1447–1452.

Eugene J. Teoh, Daniel R. McGowan, Ruth E. Macpherson, Kevin M. Bradley, and Fergus V. Gleeson

Department of Radiology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

 

Impact of Image-Derived Input Function and Fit Time Intervals on Patlak Quantification of Myocardial Glucose Uptake in Mice

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1615–1621.

James T. Thackeray, Jens P. Bankstahl, and Frank M. Bengel

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

 

Semiquantitative ¹²³I-Metaiodobenzylguanidine Scintigraphy to Distinguish Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma from Physiologic Adrenal Uptake and Its Correlation with Genotype-Dependent Expression of Catecholamine Transporters

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:839–846.

Anouk van Berkel, Jyotsna U. Rao, Jacques W.M. Lenders, Natalia S. Pellegata, Benno Kusters, Ianthe Piscaer, Ad R.M.M. Hermus, Theo S. Plantinga, Johan F. Langenhuijsen, Dennis Vriens, Marcel J.R. Janssen, Martin Gotthardt, and Henri J.L.M. Timmers

Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

Improving the Spatial Alignment in PET/CT Using Amplitude-Based Respiration-Gated PET and Respiration-Triggered CT

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1817–1822.

Charlotte S. van der Vos, Willem Grootjans, Dustin R. Osborne, Antoi P.W. Meeuwis, James J. Hamill, Shelley Acuff, Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei, and Eric P. Visser

Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

¹¹¹In-Cetuximab-F(ab′)₂ SPECT and ¹⁸F-FDG PET for Prediction and Response Monitoring of Combined-Modality Treatment of Human Head and Neck Carcinomas in a Mouse Model

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:287–292.

Laura K. van Dijk, Otto C. Boerman, Gerben M. Franssen, Johannes H.A.M. Kaanders, and Johan Bussink

Department of Radiation Oncology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

Assessment of Estrogen Receptor Expression in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Patients Using 16α-¹⁸F-Fluoro-17β-Estradiol PET/CT

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:50–55.

Michel van Kruchten, Erik F.J. de Vries, Henriette J.G. Arts, Neeltina M. Jager, Alphons H.H. Bongaerts, Andor W.J.M. Glaudemans, Harry Hollema, Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, Geke A.P. Hospers, and Anna K.L. Reyners

Department of Medical Oncology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

 

Quantification of ¹⁸F-Fluorocholine Kinetics in Patients with Prostate Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:365–371.

Eline E. Verwer, Daniela E. Oprea-Lager, Alfons J.M. van den Eertwegh, Reindert J.A. van Moorselaar, Albert D. Windhorst, Lothar A. Schwarte, N. Harry Hendrikse, Robert C. Schuit, Otto S. Hoekstra, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, and Ronald Boellaard

Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Intratherapeutic Biokinetic Measurements, Dosimetry Parameter Estimates, and Monitoring of Treatment Efficacy Using Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging in Preclinical Radionuclide Therapy

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:444–449.

Oskar Vilhelmsson Timmermand, Thuy A. Tran, Sven-Erik Strand, and Johan Axelsson

Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

 

⁶⁸Ga- and ¹⁷⁷Lu-Labeled PSMA I&T: Optimization of a PSMA-Targeted Theranostic Concept and First Proof-of-Concept Human Studies

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1169–1176.

Martina Weineisen, Margret Schottelius, Jakub Simecek, Richard P. Baum, Akin Yildiz, Seval Beykan, Harshad R. Kulkarni, Michael Lassmann, Ingo Klette, Matthias Eiber, Markus Schwaiger, and Hans-Jürgen Wester

Pharmaceutical Radiochemistry, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

 

Retention Kinetics of the ¹⁸F-Labeled Sympathetic Nerve PET TracerLMI1195: Comparison with ¹¹C-Hydroxyephedrine and ¹²³I-MIBG

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1429–1433.

Rudolf A. Werner, Christoph Rischpler, David Onthank, Constantin Lapa, Simon Robinson, Samuel Samnick, Mehrbod Javadi, Markus Schwaiger, Stephan G. Nekolla, and Takahiro Higuchi

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

 

Scintillating Balloon-Enabled Fiber-Optic System for Radionuclide Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaques

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:771–777.

Raiyan T. Zaman, Hisanori Kosuge, Colin Carpenter, Conroy Sun, Michael V. McConnell, and Lei Xing

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

 

The Reverse Warburg Effect and ¹⁸F-FDG Uptake in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer A549 in Mice: A Pilot Study

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:607–612.

Guojian Zhang, Jianbo Li, Xuemei Wang, Yuanyuan Ma, Xindao Yin, Feng Wang, Huaiyu Zheng, Xiaoxian Duan, Gregory C. Postel, and Xiao-Feng Li

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inner Mongolia Medical University Affiliated Hospital, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

 

Clinical Translation of an Albumin-Binding PET Radiotracer ⁶⁸Ga-NEB

J Nucl Med. 2015;56:1609–1614.

Jingjing Zhang, Lixin Lang, Zhaohui Zhu, Fang Li, Gang Niu, and Xiaoyuan Chen

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College (CAMS and PUMC), Beijing, China

 

  

 

 

 

2016 ARRT SNMMI-TS Professional Development Grant Recipients

Blong Vang - Southeastern Chapter                 David Jackle - Greater New York

Krystle Glasgow - Southeastern Chapter          Jessica Williams - Greater New York

Sara Smith - Southeastern Chapter                 Jody Leopardi - Greater New York

Suzanne Devic - Eastern Great Lakes              Stacy Phillips - Central Chapter

Andrew Leasure - Northern California              Sara Maynard - Mid-Eastern Chapter

Rajoo Luhanibal - Southwestern Chapter

 

2016 ERF SNMMI-TS Bachelor's Degree Completion Scholarship

Jessica Williams, CNMT, RT (N), FSNMMI-TS