In the May 2024 supplement issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, an insightful article by Chen et al. was published: “Advancing Global Nuclear Medicine: The Role and Future Contributions of China” ...

Currently, PET scanner validation phantoms, methods, and acceptance criteria for clinical trials are not standardized. This ...

Yeong Hak Bang, Jong Hoon Kim, Yong-Hee Kim, Hyeong Ryul Kim, Jin-Sook Ryu, Yong-Il Kim, Joon Seon Song, Sung-Bae Kim and Sook Ryun Park ...

The endogenous μ-opioid receptor (MOR) system plays a key role in the mammalian reward circuit. Human and animal experiments suggest the involvement of MORs in human sexual pleasure, yet this ...

MIRD schema ICRP schema absorbed dose equivalent dose effective dose In 1976, the Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine issued MIRD Pamphlet No. 1, ...

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a promising target in prostate cancer. Recently, we started the first-in-human treatment with an α-radionuclide–labeled PSMA ligand. Although the case ...

EF has a central role in the management of HF, identifying patients who are likely to respond to therapy for HF with reduced EF as well as patients who will benefit from device therapy, either ...

Cardiovascular imaging is evolving in response to systemwide trends toward molecular characterization and personalized therapies. The development of new radiotracers for PET and SPECT imaging is ...

This review explores the role of PET in imaging immune activation, particularly in oncology. 18F-FDG is widely used for assessing treatment response to immunotherapies and can demonstrate unique ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a characteristic feature of interstitial lung disease. Current clinical diagnostic methods provide a snapshot of the lung structure without information on disease activity.

Chronic hypertension leads to injury and fibrosis in major organs. Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) is one of key molecules in tissue fibrosis, and 68Ga-labeled FAP inhibitor-46 (FAPI46) PET is a ...

The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make nuclear medicine and medical imaging faster, cheaper, and both more effective and more accessible. This is possible, however, ...