Perspectives on Nuclear Medicine for Molecular Diagnosis and Integrated Therapy

Part I. Instrument and Data Analysis

1. Advances in 4D Gated Cardiac PET Imaging for Image Quality Improvement and Cardiac Motion and Contractility Estimation
Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Tao Feng, Jizhe Wang, Jingyan Xu, M. Roselle Abraham, Stefan L. Zimmerman, Thomas H. Schindler

2. The Need for Quantitative SPECT in Clinical Brain Examinations
Hidehiro Iida, Tsutomu Zeniya, Miho Yamauchi, Kazuhiro Koshino, Takashi Temma, Satoshi Iguchi, Makoto Yamazaki, Junichiro Enmi, Naoya Kondo, Nobutoku Motomura, Jyoji Nakagawara

3. PET Imaging Innovation by DOI Detectors
Taiga Yamaya

4. Semiconductor Detector-Based Scanners for Nuclear Medicine
Wataru Takeuchi, Atsuro Suzuki, Yuichiro Ueno, Tohru Shiga, Kenji Hirata, Shozo Okamoto, Songji Zhao, Yuji Kuge, Naoki Kubo, Kentaro Kobayashi, Shiro Watanabe, Keiji Kobashi, Kikuo Umegaki, Nagara Tamaki

5. Kinetic Analysis for Cardiac PET
Yuuki Tomiyama, Keiichiro Yoshinaga

Part II. Biomarker and Molecular Probes

6. How Far Are We from Dose On Demand of Short-Lived Radiopharmaceuticals?
Giancarlo Pascali, Lidia Matesic

7. Advantages of Radiochemistry in Microliter Volumes
Pei Yuin Keng, Maxim Sergeev, R. Michael Dam

8. Development of a Microreactor for Synthesis of 18F-Labeled Positron Emission Tomography Probe
Norihito Kuno, Naomi Manri, Norifumi Abo, Yukako Asano, Ken-ichi Nishijima, Nagara Tamaki, Yuji Kuge

9. Preclinical Evaluation of a Thymidine Phosphorylase Imaging Probe, [123I]IIMU, for Translational Research
Ken-ichi Nishijima, Songji Zhao, Fei Feng, Yoichi Shimizu, Hiromichi Akizawa, Kazue Ohkura, Nagara Tamaki, Yuji Kuge

10. Discovery and Evaluation of Biomarkers for Atherosclerosis
Takeshi Sakamoto, Hiroko Hanzawa, Naomi Manri, Mamoru Sakakibara, Yoichi Shimizu, Yan Zhao, Songji Zhao, Shiro Yamada, Kiwamu Kamiya, Yutaka Eki, Akihiro Suzuki, Haruhiko Higuchi, Chiaki Sugano, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Nagara Tamaki, Yuji Kuge

11. Radioimmunodetection of Atherosclerotic Lesions Focusing on the Accumulation Mechanism of Immunoglobulin G
Yoichi Shimizu, Hiroko Hanzawa, Yan Zhao, Ken-ichi Nishijima, Sagiri Fukura, Takeshi Sakamoto, Songji Zhao, Nagara Tamaki, Yuji Kuge

Part III. Cardiology

12. Noninvasive PET Flow Reserve Imaging to Direct Optimal Therapies for Myocardial Ischemia
Robert A. deKemp, Rob SB Beanlands

13. The Clinical Value of Cardiac PET in Heart Failure
Chi-Lun Ko, Yen-Wen Wu

14. Emerging Trends and Future Perspective of Novel Cardiac SPECT Technology
Masao Miyagawa, Yoshiko Nishiyama, Hayato Ishimura, Rami Tashiro, Kana Ide, Teruhito Mochizuki

15. Right Ventricular Metabolism and Its Efficiency
Keiichiro Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Ohira, Ichizo Tsujino, Osamu Manabe, Takahiro Sato, Chietsugu Katoh, Katsuhiko Kasai, Yuuki Tomiyama, Masaharu Nishimura, Nagara Tamaki

16. Usefulness of 18F-FDG PET in Diagnosing Cardiac Sarcoidosis
Osamu Manabe, Keiichiro Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Ohira, Noriko Oyama-Manabe

Part IV. Neurology

17. PET Quantification in Molecular Brain Imaging Taking into Account the Contribution of the Radiometabolite Entering the Brain
Masanori Ichise, Yasuyuki Kimura, Hitoshi Shimada, Makoto Higuchi, Tetsuya Suhara

18. Hypoxia Imaging with 18F-FMISO PET for Brain Tumors
Kenji Hirata, Kentaro Kobayashi, Nagara Tamaki

19. Evolution and Protection of Cerebral Infarction Evaluated by PET and SPECT
Eku Shimosegawa

20. Brain Development and Aging Using Large Brain MRI Database
Yasuyuki Taki

Part V. Oncology

21. Back to the Future: Nuclear Medicine Rediscovers Its Therapeutic Roots
Rodney J. Hicks

22. Interactive Communication Between PET Specialists and Oncologists
Huiting Che, Ying Zhang, Ying Dong, Wensheng Pan, Ling Chen, Hong Zhang, Mei Tian

23. Clinical Efficacy of PET/CT Using 68Ga-DOTATOC for Diagnostic Imaging
Yuji Nakamoto, Takayoshi Ishimori, Kaori Togashi

24. Correlation of 4′-[methyl-11C]-Thiothymidine Uptake with Ki-67 Immunohistochemistry in Patients with Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent Gliomas
Yuka Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Nishiyama

25. Impact of Respiratory-Gated FMISO-PET/CT for the Quantitative Evaluation of Hypoxia in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Shiro Watanabe, Kenji Hirata, Shozo Okamoto, Nagara Tamaki

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Nuclear Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology