1527-1529
Editorial
Partial volume correction of standardized uptake values and the dual time point in FDG-PET imaging: should these be routinely employed in assessing patients with cancer?
Sandip Basu and Abass Alavi
1530-1533
Editorial commentary
PET probes and oncological surgery: a productive new marriage for nuclear medicine?
Orazio Schillaci
1534-1544
Original Article
Open AccessPositron detection for the intraoperative localisation of cancer deposits
Morand Piert, Maria Burian, Günther Meisetschläger, Hubert J. Stein and Sibylle Ziegler, et al.
1545-1555
Original Article
Radio-guided surgery with the use of [99mTc-EDDA/HYNIC]octreotate in intra-operative detection of neuroendocrine tumours of the gastrointestinal tract
A. Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, J. Kulig, P. Szybinski, R. Mikolajczak and D. Pach, et al.
1556-1562
Original Article
Prospective comparison of two gamma probes for intraoperative detection of 18F-FDG: in vitro assessment and clinical evaluation in differentiated thyroid cancer patients with iodine-negative recurrence
Chantal Curtet, Thomas Carlier, Eric Mirallié, Caroline Bodet-Milin and Caroline Rousseau, et al.
1563-1565
Editorial commentary
Imaging of tumour hypoxia using PET and 18F-labelled tracers: biology meets technology
Tove Grönroos and Heikki Minn
1566-1575
Original Article
Tumour hypoxia imaging with [18F]FAZA PET in head and neck cancer patients: a pilot study
M. Souvatzoglou, A. L. Grosu, B. Röper, B. J. Krause and R. Beck, et al.
1576-1582
Editorial commentary
Predicting response to chemoradiotherapy in rectal and oesophageal cancer with 18F-FDG: prognostic value and possible role in patient management
Elif Hindié, Christophe Hennequin and Jean-luc Moretti
1583-1593
Original Article
Sequential FDG-PET/CT reliably predicts response of locally advanced rectal cancer to neo-adjuvant chemo-radiation therapy
Carlo Capirci, Lucia Rampin, Paola A. Erba, Fabrizio Galeotti and Giorgio Crepaldi, et al.
1594-1603
Original article
PET/CT colonography in patients with colorectal polyps: a feasibility study
Pier Paolo Mainenti, Barbara Salvatore, Dario D’Antonio, Teresa De Falco and Giovanni Domenico De Palma, et al.
1604-1609
Original Article
Diagnostic impact of PET with 18F-FDG, 18F-DOPA and 3-
O
-methyl-6-[18F]fluoro-DOPA in recurrent or metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma
B. Beuthien-Baumann, A. Strumpf, J. Zessin, J. Bredow and J. Kotzerke
1610-1616
Original Article
Correlation of 18F-FLT and 18F-FDG uptake on PET with Ki-67 immunohistochemistry in non-small cell lung cancer
Yuka Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Nishiyama, Shinya Ishikawa, Jun Nakano and Sung Soo Chang, et al.
1617-1626
Original Article
Comparison of 68Ga-DOTATOC PET and 111In-DTPAOC (Octreoscan) SPECT in patients with neuroendocrine tumours
I. Buchmann, M. Henze, S. Engelbrecht, M. Eisenhut and A. Runz, et al.
1627-1634
Original Article
Non-enhanced CT versus contrast-enhanced CT in integrated PET/CT studies for nodal staging of rectal cancer
Ukihide Tateishi, Tetsuo Maeda, Tsuyoshi Morimoto, Mototaka Miyake and Yasuaki Arai, et al.
1635-1645
Original Article
Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy using 99mTc-EDDA/HYNIC-TOC in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma
Rafał Czepczyński, Maria Gemma Parisella, Jerzy Kosowicz, Renata Mikołajczak and Katarzyna Ziemnicka, et al.
1646-1657
Original Article
Are there adaptive changes in the human brain of patients with Parkinson’s disease treated with long-term deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus? A 4-year follow-up study with regional cerebral blood flow SPECT
Stelvio Sestini, Alberto Pupi, Franco Ammannati, Ramat Silvia and Sandro Sorbi, et al.
1658-1669
Original Article
Partial volume effect-corrected FDG PET and grey matter volume loss in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease
Miharu Samuraki, Ichiro Matsunari, Wei-Ping Chen, Kazuyoshi Yajima and Daisuke Yanase, et al.
1670-1682
Original Article
Synthesis and initial evaluation of [11C](
R
)-RWAY in monkey—a new, simply labeled antagonist radioligand for imaging brain 5-HT1A receptors with PET
Julie A. McCarron, Sami S. Zoghbi, H. Umesha Shetty, Eric S. Vermeulen and Håkan V. Wikström, et al.
1683-1692
Original Article
Performance of the new generation of whole-body PET/CT scanners: Discovery STE and Discovery VCT
M. Teräs, T. Tolvanen, J. J. Johansson, J. J. Williams and J. Knuuti
1693-1697
Focus on...
Imaging biomarkers: from research to patient care—a shift in view
Giovanni Lucignani
1698
Letter to the Editor
Lymphoscintigraphic and intraoperative detection of sentinel lymph nodes
Ali T. Akpinar
1699-1700
Letter to the editor
Clinical radionuclide therapy dosimetry: the quest for the “Holy Gray”
Glenn Flux, Manuel Bardies, Carlo Chiesa, Myriam Monsieurs and Sauli Savolainen, et al.
1701-1703
Letter to the Editor
Negative MIBI thyroid scans exclude differentiated and medullary thyroid cancer in 100% of patients with hypofunctioning thyroid nodules
Luis-Mauricio Hurtado-López and Carlos Martínez-Duncker
1704-1705
Letter to the Editor
11C/18F-choline PET or 11C/18F-acetate PET in prostate cancer: may a choice be recommended?
Cristina Nanni, Paolo Castellucci, Mohsen Farsad, Domenico Rubello and Stefano Fanti
1706-1707
Letter to the editor
Hybrid 3D Sono/PET in a mouse
N. Lang, S. Hermann, S. Hold, M. Mienkina and L. Stegger, et al.
1708
Book review
Habib Zaidi: Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging
Springer, New York, 2006, 594 pp, 110 illustrations, hardcover, ISBN-10: 0-387-23854-9, ISBN-13: 978-0387-23854-8
Mario Quarantelli and Anna Prinster
1709
Book review
Open AccessG. Schmidt. Thieme clinical companions: ultrasound, 5th edition.
Thieme Verlagsgruppe, Stuttgart, Germany, 2007. Softcover. 484 pp, 81 tables, 1091 illustrations. Price: € 39.95, CHF 67.90, $ 49.95. ISBN 3-13-142711-6/978-3-13-42711-3
M. P. M. Stokkel and Luigi Mansi
1710
Book review
C Schiepers (ed): Diagnostic nuclear medicine, 2nd rev. edn.
Spinger, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2006. Hardcover. 362 pp., 235 illustrations, 11 in colour. $ 199.00. ISBN 3-540-42309-5, ISBN 978-3-540-42309-6
Vincenzo Cuccurullo and Pier Francesco Rambaldi
1711-1712
Image of the month
Diagnosis of endoneural sciatic nerve invasion by uterine cervical epidermoid cancer using [18F]FDG-PET/CT
Gaetano Paone, Emmanuel Itti, Daniela Capacchione, Nicolas Ortonne and Pierre Brugières, et al.