1. Hemodynamic evaluation of varicocele: The role of scrotal scintigraphy and Doppler ultrasonography in the prediction of postoperative seminal improvement

   • Hulya Ortapamuk
   • Umit Yener Tekdogan
   • Ali Atan

   Original Article Pages: 529 - 534

2. Ongoing myocardial damage relates to cardiac sympathetic nervous disintegrity in patients with heart failure

   • Takanori Arimoto
   • Yasuchika Takeishi
   • Isao Kubota

   Original Article Pages: 535 - 540

3. Optimum energy window setting on Hg-201 x-rays photopeak for effective Tl-201 imaging

   • Akihiro Kojima
   • Akihiro Takaki
   • Yasuyuki Yamashita

   Original Article Pages: 541 - 547

4. Evaluation of the hemodynamics of the femoral head compared with the ilium, femoral neck and femoral intertrochanteric region in healthy adults: Measurement with positron emission tomography (PET)

   • Fuminori Nakamura
   • Mikihiro Fujioka
   • Toshikazu Kubo

   Original Article Pages: 549 - 555

5. Do short-time SPECT images of bone scintigraphy improve the diagnostic value in the evaluation of solitary lesions in the thoracic spine in patients with extraskeletal malignancies?

   • Kana Kobayashi
   • Chio Okuyama
   • Tsunehiko Nishimura

   Original Article Pages: 557 - 566

6. Influence of photon scattering and attenuation on ROI analysis in brain perfusion single-photon emission tomographic imaging of normal subjects

   • Jingming Bai
   • Jun Hashimoto
   • Koichi Uchida

   Original Article Pages: 567 - 572

7. Comparison of¹⁸FDG-PET with^99mTc-HMDP scntigraphy for the detection of bone metastases in patients with breast cancer

   • Koichiro Abe
   • Masayuki Sasaki
   • Hiroshi Honda

   Original Article Pages: 573 - 579

8. Tear clearance measurement in patients with dry eye syndrome using quantitative lacrimal scintigraphy

   • Esra Arzu Gencoglu
   • Dilek Dursun
   • Aynur Koyuncu

   Original Article Pages: 581 - 587

9. An experimental study onO-[¹⁸F]fluoromethyl-L-tyrosine for differentiation between tumor and inflammatory tissues

   • Manami Suzuki
   • Keiichiro Yamaguchi
   • Masatoshi Itoh

   Original Article Pages: 589 - 595

10. Localization of chyle leakage site in postoperative chylothorax by oral administration of I-123 BMIPP

    • Kimihiko Sugiura
    • Yoshio Tanabe
    • Takeshi Tokushima

    Case Report Pages: 597 - 601

11. Increased accumulations of AMsopropyl-p-[¹²³I]-iodoamphetamine related to tumefactive multiple sclerosis

    • Takao Sagiuchi
    • Hidehiro Oka
    • Kiyotaka Fujii

    Case Report Pages: 603 - 606

12. Improvement in Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT findings during donepezil therapy in a patient with pure akinesia

    • Gorsev G. Yener
    • Gamze Çapa Kaya
    • Gulden Akdal

    Case Report Pages: 607 - 609

13. ¹¹¹In-pentetreotide and¹²³I-MIBG for detection and resection of lymph node metastases of a carcinoid not visualized by CT, MRI or FDG-PET

    • Mahmut Yüksel
    • Samer Eziddin
    • Hans-Juergen Biersack

    Case Report Pages: 611 - 615

14. Radiosynthesis andin vivo evaluation of¹¹C-Iabeled 1,5-diarylpyrazole derivatives for mapping cyclooxygenases

    • Yoshihiko Fujisaki
    • Kazunori Kawamura
    • Minoru Maeda

    Technical Notes Pages: 617 - 625

15. Assessment of the solid-state gamma camera to depict axillary sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients

    • Mariko Goto
    • Chio Okuyama
    • Tsunehiko Nishimura

    Technical Notes Pages: 627 - 631

16. Evaluating performance of a pixel array semiconductor SPECT system for small animal imaging

    • Naoki Kubo
    • Songji Zhao
    • Nagara Tamaki

    Technical Notes Pages: 633 - 639