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  1. This study aims to evaluate the effect of various background reference regions on spinal 18F-FET PET imaging, with a focus on distinguishing between spinal tumors and myelitis. To enhance diagnostic accuracy, we ...

    Authors: Jing Huang, Jiyuan Wang, Bixiao Cui, Hongwei Yang, Defeng Tian, Jie Ma, Wanru Duan, Zan Chen and Jie Lu
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:69
  2. 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (mIBG) has been applied to patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). However, the relationship between 123I-mIBG activity and lethal arrhythmic events (ArE) is not well defined. Thi...

    Authors: Kenichi Nakajima, Tomoaki Nakata, Takahiro Doi, Derk O. Verschure, Viviana Frantellizzi, Maria Silvia De Feo, Hayato Tada and Hein J. Verberne
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:67
  3. Radiolabelled fibroblast activation protein inhibitors (FAPIs) are becoming increasingly important for imaging various tumour diseases. However, it is essential to be aware of potential pitfalls. Here, we inve...

    Authors: Kim M. Pabst, Lukas Kessler, Justin Ferdinandus, Rainer Hamacher, Timo Bartel, Jens T. Siveke, Michael Nader, Tim Brandenburg, Mélanie Desaulniers, Ken Herrmann and Wolfgang P. Fendler
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:66
  4. Dual-phase fluorine-18 labeled N-3-fluoropropyl-2β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane (18F-FP-CIT) positron emission tomography (PET) scans could be used to support disorders like Parkinson’s disease (PD)....

    Authors: Ji-Young Kim, Seo Young Kang, Byung Seok Moon, Bom Sahn Kim, Jee Hyang Jeong and Hai-Jeon Yoon
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:65
  5. Positron emission tomography (PET) is now an established diagnostic method for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in coronary artery disease, which is the main cause of death globally. The available tracers sh...

    Authors: Seweryn Krajewski, Lukasz Steczek, Karina Gotowicz, Urszula Karczmarczyk, Joanna Towpik, Ewa Witkowska-Patena, Krzysztof Łyczko, Maciej Mazur, Przemysław Kozanecki, Joanna Włostowska, Juhani Knuuti, Mirosław Dziuk, Piotr Garnuszek and Cezary Kozanecki
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:63
  6. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular tumor in adults, and early detection is critical to improve the clinical outcome of this disease. In this study, the diagnostic effectiveness of [18F]AlF...

    Authors: Ling Wang, Xue Zhu, Yan Xue, Zhihong Huang, Wenjun Zou, Zhengwei Zhang, Mengxi Yu, Donghui Pan and Ke Wang
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:62
  7. Subtype diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA) is used to determine treatment, and the potential utility of 68Ga-pentixafor PET/CT for investigation of PA has long been recognized. The study aimed to evaluate th...

    Authors: Rui Zuo, Shuang Liu, Wenbo Li, Zhu Xia, Lu Xu and Hua Pang
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:61
  8. The aim of this study is to investigate the added value of combining tumour blood flow (BF) and metabolism parameters, including texture features, with clinical parameters to predict, at baseline, the patholog...

    Authors: Neree Payan, Benoit Presles, Charles Coutant, Isabelle Desmoulins, Sylvain Ladoire, Françoise Beltjens, François Brunotte, Jean-Marc Vrigneaud and Alexandre Cochet
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:60
  9. N-(3-fluoropropyl)-2β-carboxymethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane (FP-CIT), the representative cocaine derivative used in dopamine transporter imaging, is a promising biomarker, as it reflects the severity of P.....

    Authors: Jae Hun Ahn, Min Hwan Kim, Kyongkyu Lee, Keumrok Oh, Hyunwoo Lim, Hee Seup Kil, Soon Jeong Kwon, Jae Yong Choi, Dae Yoon Chi and Yong Jin Lee
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:59
  10. O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine positron emission tomography ([18F]FET PET) scanning is used in routine clinical management and evaluation of gliomas with a recommended 4 h prior fasting. Knowledge of test–rete...

    Authors: Sarah Chehri, Otto Mølby Henriksen, Lisbeth Marner, Mette Christensen, Aida Muhic, Hans Skovgaard Poulsen and Ian Law
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:58
  11. Paraquat (PQ) -induced pulmonary fibrosis poses a significant medical challenge due to limited treatment options and high mortality rates. Consequently, there is an urgent need for early diagnosis and accurate...

    Authors: Dimei Zhang, Yusheng Shi, Jiangwei Kong, Na Chen, Guiting Li, Mingfang Wang, Guoxia Zhang and Chuangyan Zhai
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:57
  12. In preclinical studies, the positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with [11C]UCB-A provided promising results for imaging synaptic vesicle protein 2A (SV2A) as a proxy for synaptic density. This paper reports...

    Authors: Mengfei Xiong, Mark Lubberink, Lieuwe Appel, Xiaotian Tsong Fang, Torsten Danfors, Eva Kumlien and Gunnar Antoni
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:56
  13. Studies on single-target PET imaging of gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR), prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), or neurotensin receptor 1(NTR1) have been reported. However, the performance of the...

    Authors: Ling Xiao, Zhihui Fang, Yongxiang Tang, Yanyan Sun, Zehua Zhu, Jian Li, Ming Zhou, Nengan Yang, Kai Zheng and Shuo Hu
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:55
  14. Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial pediatric solid tumor. 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) is a targeted radiopharmaceutical highly specific for neuroblastoma tumors, providing potent radiotherapy ...

    Authors: Prerna Kumar, Jessica Koach, Erin Nekritz, Sucheta Mukherjee, Benjamin S. Braun, Steven G. DuBois, Nicole Nasholm, Daphne Haas-Kogan, Katherine K. Matthay, William A. Weiss, Clay Gustafson and Youngho Seo
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:54
  15. Fatty acid uptake can be measured using PET and 14-(R,S)‐[18F]fluoro‐6‐thia‐heptadecanoic acid ([18F]FTHA). However, the relatively rapid rate of [18F]FTHA metabolism significantly affects kinetic modeling of tis...

    Authors: Richard Aarnio, Anna Kirjavainen, Johan Rajander, Sarita Forsback, Kari Kalliokoski, Pirjo Nuutila, Zvonko Milicevic, Tamer Coskun, Axel Haupt, Iina Laitinen and Merja Haaparanta-Solin
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:53
  16. F-18-flurodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT is routinely used for staging, evaluation of response to treatment and follow-up of most pediatric malignancies. Cervical lymph nodes can be involved in some pediatric malig...

    Authors: Jeremy Godefroy, Raphael Godefroy, Koral Vedder, Yair Altura, Alexandre Chicheportiche, Simona Ben-Haim and Gal Goldstein
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:52
  17. 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ([18F]FDG) positron emission tomography combined with low-dose computed tomography (PET/CT) can be used at diagnosis to identify myeloma-defining events and also provides prognosti...

    Authors: Silvano Marchiori, François Cousin, Iraklis Papadopoulos, Claire Bernard, Marie Thys, Bernard De Prijck, Michelle Pirotte, Anne-Françoise Donneau, Roland Hustinx, Jo Caers and Nadia Withofs
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:51
  18. Exploring the relationship between oxygen supply and myelin damage would benefit from a simultaneous quantification of myelin and cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the brain’s white matter (WM). To validate an anal...

    Authors: Arya Yazdan-Panah, Benedetta Bodini, Théodore Soulier, Mattia Veronese, Michel Bottlaender, Matteo Tonietto and Bruno Stankoff
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:50
  19. Besides International Prognostic Index (IPI) score, baseline prognostic factors of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) are poorly identified due to the rarity of the disease. New indexes deriv...

    Authors: David Morland, Lukshe Kanagaratnam, Fabrice Hubelé, Elise Toussaint, Sylvain Choquet, Aurélie Kas, Pierre-Ambroise Caquot, Corinne Haioun, Emmanuel Itti, Stéphane Leprêtre, Pierre Decazes, Fontanet Bijou, Paul Schwartz, Caroline Jacquet, Adrien Chauchet, Julien Matuszak…
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:49
  20. [11C]metomidate, a methyl ester analogue of etomidate, is used for positron emission tomography of adrenocortical cancer, and has been tested in recent clinical trials for lateralization in primary aldosteronism ...

    Authors: Isabella Silins, Adrian Moreno, Anders Wall, Franklin Aigbirhio, Mark Gurnell, Morris Brown, Sara Roslin, Gunnar Antoni, Per Hellman, Anders Sundin and Mark Lubberink
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:48
  21. Indocyanine green (ICG)-guided surgery has proven effective in the identification of neoplastic tissues. The effect of radiation therapy (RT) on lymph node fluorescence after intravenous injection of ICG has n...

    Authors: Antoine Digonnet, Sophie Vankerkhove, Michel Moreau, Cécile Dekeyser, Marie Quiriny, Esther Willemse, Nicolas de saint Aubain, Matteo Cappello, Vincent Donckier and Pierre Bourgeois
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:47
  22. Approaches targeting the sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT) could represent a promising future therapeutic strategy for numerous oncological and metabolic diseases. In this study, we evaluated the safety, bio...

    Authors: Barbara Katharina Geist, Juan Carlos Ramirez, Patrick Binder, Holger Einspieler, Harald Ibeschitz, Werner Langsteger, Lukas Nics, Ivo Rausch, Markus Diemling, Antti Sohlberg, Marcus Hacker and Sazan Rasul
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:46
  23. Thymic cysts are a rare benign disease that needs to be distinguished from low-risk thymoma. [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) is a non-invasive imaging tec...

    Authors: Sunju Choi, Yong-il Kim, Sangwon Han, Jae Kwang Yun, Geun Dong Lee, Sehoon Choi, Hyeong Ryul Kim, Yong-Hee Kim, Dong Kwan Kim, Seung-Il Park and Jin-Sook Ryu
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:45
  24. Authors: Obada M. Alzghool, Richard Aarnio, Jatta S. Helin, Saara Wahlroos, Thomas Keller, Markus Matilainen, Junel Solis, Jonathan J. Danon, Michael Kassiou, Anniina Snellman, Olof Solin, Juha O. Rinne and Merja Haaparanta‑Solin
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:44

    The original article was published in EJNMMI Research 2024 14:25

  25. 4-Aminopyridine (4AP) is a medication for the symptomatic treatment of multiple sclerosis. Several 4AP-based PET tracers have been developed for imaging demyelination. In preclinical studies, [11C]3MeO4AP has sho...

    Authors: Yu-Peng Zhou, Moses Q. Wilks, Maeva Dhaynaut, Nicolas J. Guehl, Danielle R. Vesper, Sung-Hyun Moon, Peter A. Rice, Georges El Fakhri, Marc D. Normandin and Pedro Brugarolas
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:43
  26. In patients with prostate cancer (PCa), imaging with gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) ligands is an alternative to PSMA-targeted tracers, particularly if PSMA expression is low or absent. [99mTc]Tc-N4-BT...

    Authors: Andreas Rinscheid, Alexander Gäble, Georgine Wienand, Alexander Dierks, Malte Kircher, Thomas Günther, Marianne Patt, Ralph A. Bundschuh, Constantin Lapa and Christian H. Pfob
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:42
  27. Mitochondrial function plays a key role in regulating neurotransmission and may contribute to general intelligence. Mitochondrial complex I (MC-I) is the largest enzyme of the respiratory chain. Recently, it h...

    Authors: Ekaterina Shatalina, Thomas S. Whitehurst, Ellis Chika Onwordi, Barnabas J. Gilbert, Gaia Rizzo, Alex Whittington, Ayla Mansur, Hideo Tsukada, Tiago Reis Marques, Sridhar Natesan, Eugenii A. Rabiner, Matthew B. Wall and Oliver D. Howes
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:41
  28. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the post-injection electrical seizure duration on the identification of the seizure onset zone (SOZ) in ictal brain perfusion SPECT in presurgical evaluation o...

    Authors: Amir Karimzadeh, Kian Baradaran-Salimi, Berthold Voges, Ivayla Apostolova, Thomas Sauvigny, Michael Lanz, Susanne Klutmann, Stefan Stodieck, Philipp T. Meyer and Ralph Buchert
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:40
  29. Kinetic modeling of 18F-florbetaben provides important quantification of brain amyloid deposition in research and clinical settings but its use is limited by the requirement of arterial blood data for quantitativ...

    Authors: Emily Nicole Holy, Elizabeth Li, Anjan Bhattarai, Evan Fletcher, Evelyn R. Alfaro, Danielle J. Harvey, Benjamin A. Spencer, Simon R. Cherry, Charles S. DeCarli and Audrey P. Fan
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:39
  30. A new generation of radiolabeled minigastrin analogs delivers low radiation doses to kidneys and are considered relatively stable due to less enzymatic degradation. Nevertheless, relatively low tumor radiation...

    Authors: Christof Rottenburger, Michael Hentschel, Markus Fürstner, Lisa McDougall, Danijela Kottoros, Felix Kaul, Rosalba Mansi, Melpomeni Fani, A. Hans Vija, Roger Schibli, Susanne Geistlich, Martin Behe, Emanuel R. Christ and Damian Wild
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:37
  31. Liver uptake in [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET is used as an internal reference in addition to clinical parameters to select patients for [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 radioligand therapy (RLT). Due to increased demand, [68Ga]Ga-PSMA...

    Authors: Cristina E. Popescu, Boya Zhang, Thomas Sartoretti, Noel Spielhofer, Stephan Skawran, Jakob Heimer, Michael Messerli, Alexander Sauter, Martin W. Huellner, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Irene A. Burger and Alexander Maurer
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:36
  32. In juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (j-SLE) with neuropsychiatric (NP) symptoms, there is a lack of diagnostic biomarkers. Thus, we study whether PET-FDG may identify any metabolic dysfunction in j-NPSLE.

    Authors: Sebastian Rodrigo, Stefania Costi, Pierre Ellul, Melodie Aubart, Nathalie Boddaert, Stephane Auvin, Monique Elmaleh, Alexandra Ntorkou, Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Vincent Lebon, Isabelle Melki and Catherine Chiron
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:34
  33. Accurate measurement of the arterial input function (AIF) is crucial for parametric PET studies, but the AIF is commonly derived from invasive arterial blood sampling. It is possible to use an image-derived in...

    Authors: Hamed Moradi, Rajat Vashistha, Soumen Ghosh, Kieran O’Brien, Amanda Hammond, Axel Rominger, Hasan Sari, Kuangyu Shi, Viktor Vegh and David Reutens
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:33
  34. Standard measures of response such as Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors are ineffective for bone lesions, often making breast cancer patients that have bone-dominant metastases ineligible for clinic...

    Authors: Mark Muzi, Lanell M. Peterson, Jennifer M. Specht, Daniel S. Hippe, Alena Novakova-Jiresova, Jean H. Lee, Brenda F. Kurland, David A. Mankoff, Nancy Obuchowski, Hannah M. Linden and Paul E. Kinahan
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:32
  35. Accurate diagnosis of axillary lymph node (ALN) metastases is essential for prognosis and treatment planning in breast cancer. Evaluation of ALN is done by ultrasound, which is limited by inter-operator variab...

    Authors: Mette Abildgaard Pedersen, André H. Dias, Karin Hjorthaug, Lars C. Gormsen, Joan Fledelius, Anna Lyhne Johnsson, Signe Borgquist, Trine Tramm, Ole Lajord Munk and Mikkel Holm Vendelbo
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:31
  36. We designed and synthesized a novel bisphosphonate radiopharmaceutical (68 Ga- or 177Lu-labeled DOTA-ibandronate [68 Ga/177Lu-DOTA-IBA]) for the targeted diagnosis and treatment of bone metastases. The biodistrib...

    Authors: Hongmei Li, Wenjie Pei, Xiqun Yang, Gengcuo Qu, Qingchu Hua, Lin Liu, Yudi Wang, Tingting Xu and Yue Chen
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:30
  37. Cancer stem cells play an important role in driving tumor growth and treatment resistance, which makes them a promising therapeutic target to prevent cancer recurrence. Emerging cance...

    Authors: Kevin Wyszatko, Nancy Janzen, Luis Rafael Silva, Luke Kwon, Teesha Komal, Manuela Ventura, Chitra Venugopal, Sheila K. Singh, John F. Valliant and Saman Sadeghi
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:29
  38. Neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 have been widely documented in patients with severe neurological symptoms during the chronic or subacute phase of the disease. However, it remains unclear whether subclini...

    Authors: Stephan P. M. Souza, Nicoli Colet, Mariana Fujiwara, Alins P. Fernandes, Natalia Tobar, Sergio S. J. Dertkigil, Maria Emilia S. Takahashi, Bárbara J. Amorim, Lucas S. Silva, Clarissa L. Yasuda, Fernando Cendes, Thiago F. de Souza, Juliano T. Rodrigues, Denise E. Zantut-Wittmann and Celso Dario Ramos
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:28
  39. Meta-analysis show the diagnostic performance of cardiac dedicated multi-pinhole cadmium-zinc-telluride myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with a sensibility around 0.9 and a specificity around 0.7. The aim of...

    Authors: Fabien Vauchot, Julien Dubois and Aurélie Bourdon
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:27
  40. Glioblastoma is an extremely aggressive malignant tumor with a very poor prognosis. Due to the increased proliferation rate of glioblastoma, there is the development of hypoxic regions, characterized by an inc...

    Authors: Catarina I. G. Pinto, André D. M. Branco, Sara Bucar, Alexandra Fonseca, Antero J. Abrunhosa, Cláudia L. da Silva, Joana F. Guerreiro and Filipa Mendes
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:26
  41. P2X7 receptor has emerged as a potentially superior PET imaging marker to TSPO, the gold standard for imaging glial reactivity. [11C]SMW139 is the most recently developed radiotracer to image P2X7 receptor. The a...

    Authors: Obada M. Alzghool, Richard Aarnio, Jatta S. Helin, Saara Wahlroos, Thomas Keller, Markus Matilainen, Junel Solis, Jonathan J. Danon, Michael Kassiou, Anniina Snellman, Olof Solin, Juha O. Rinne and Merja Haaparanta-Solin
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:25

    The Correction to this article has been published in EJNMMI Research 2024 14:44

  42. Correct classification of estrogen receptor (ER) status is essential for prognosis and treatment planning in patients with breast cancer (BC). Therefore, it is recommended to sample tumor tissue from an access...

    Authors: Mette A. Pedersen, Ole L. Munk, André H. Dias, Johanne H. Steffensen, Anders L. Møller, Anna Lyhne Johnsson, Kim Vang Hansen, Dirk Bender, Steen Jakobsen, Morten Busk, Lars C. Gormsen, Trine Tramm, Signe Borgquist and Mikkel H. Vendelbo
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:24
  43. We recently introduced radiohybrid (rh)-based minigastrin analogs e.g., DOTA-rhCCK-18 (DOTA-D-Dap(p-SiFA)-(D-γ-Glu)8-Ala-Tyr-Gly-Trp-Nle-Asp-Phe-NH2), that revealed substantially increased activity retention in t...

    Authors: Nadine Holzleitner, Sebastian Fischer, Isabel Maniyankerikalam, Roswitha Beck, Constantin Lapa, Hans-Jürgen Wester and Thomas Günther
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:23
  44. Cisplatin- based chemoradiotherapy is a crucial pillar in the treatment of HNSCC. The use of cisplatin comes with high toxicity rates as 35% of patients cannot sustain the planned dose while response is unpred...

    Authors: Reinout H. de Roest, Marijke Stigter van Walsum, Karlijn van der Schilden and Ruud H. Brakenhoff
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:22
  45. 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) plays a crucial part in the evaluation for pediatric epileptic patients prior to therapy. Short-term scanning holds significant importance, especially for pediatrics ep....

    Authors: Min Li, Xiao Cui, Huixin Yue, Chao Ma, Kun Li, Leiying Chai, Min Ge, Hui Li, Yee Ling Ng, Yun Zhou, Jianguo Shi, Yanhua Duan and Zhaoping Cheng
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:21
  46. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the role of baseline (B), interim (I) and end-of-treatment (Eot) 18F-FDG PET/CT in assessing the prognosis of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), so as to identify...

    Authors: Wenyu Zhao, Xiaodong Wu, Shuo Huang, Hui Wang and Hongliang Fu
    Citation: EJNMMI Research 2024 14:20

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