1. What can be learned from the COURAGE trial?

   • George A. Beller

   Editor’s Page Pages: 1 - 2

2. Symptom-limited exercise during vasodilator stress: Best of both worlds?

   • Kevin A Bybee
   • Timothy M. Bateman

   Editorial Pages: 3 - 6

3. To add amiodarone or not: That is the question

   • Matthew Jason Zimmerman
   • Myron C. Gerson

   Editorial Pages: 7 - 9

4. Timing is everything

   • Steven C. Port

   Editorial Pages: 10 - 12

5. Cardiac computed tomography and myocardial perfusion imaging for risk stratification in asymptomatic diabetic patients: A critical review

   • Ajay Yerramasu
   • Shreenidhi Venuraju Maggae
   • Dhakshinamurthy Vijay Anand

   Editorial Point of View Pages: 13 - 22

6. Analysis of serial images: A challenge and an opportunity

   • Ami E. Iskandrian
   • Ernest V. Garcia
   • Tracy Faber

   Editorial Point of View Pages: 23 - 26

7. Quantitative myocardial-perfusion SPECT: Comparison of three state-of-the-art software packages

   • Arik Wolak
   • Piotr J. Slomka
   • Guido Germano

   Original Articles Pages: 27 - 34

8. Feasibility of a rapid protocol of 1-day single-isotope rest/adenosine stress Tc-99m sestamibi ECG-gated myocardial perfusion imaging

   • Futoshi Tadehara
   • Hideya Yamamoto
   • Nobuoki Kohno

   Original Articles Pages: 35 - 41

9. Symptom-limited exercise combined with dipyridamole stress: Prognostic value in assessment of known or suspected coronary artery disease by use of gated SPECT imaging

   • Alan W. Ahlberg
   • Sarkis B. Baghdasarian
   • Gary V. Heller

   Original Articles Pages: 42 - 56

10. Combined therapy with carvedilol and amiodarone is more effective in improving cardiac symptoms, function, and sympathetic nerve activity in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy: Comparison with carvedilol therapy alone

    • Takuji Toyama
    • Hiroshi Hoshizaki
    • Koichi Taniguchi

    Original Articles Pages: 57 - 64

11. Regional alterations in myocardial sympathetic innervation in patients with transient left-ventricular apical ballooning (Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy)

    • Christof Burgdorf
    • Katharina von Hof
    • Volkhard Kurowski

    Original Articles Pages: 65 - 72

12. Age-related decrease in cardiopulmonary adrenergic neuronal function in children as assessed by I-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging

    • Wengen Chen
    • Elias H. Botvinick
    • Hongming Zhuang

    Original Articles Pages: 73 - 79

13. Comparison of left ventricular contraction homogeneity index using SPECT gated blood pool imaging and planar phase analysis

    • François Harel
    • Vincent Finnerty
    • Paul Khairy

    Original Articles Pages: 80 - 85

14. Effect of sex, age, and weight on ejection fraction and end-systolic volume reference limits in gated myocardial perfusion SPECT

    • Richard A. Peace
    • Philip C. Adams
    • Jim J. Lloyd

    Original Articles Pages: 86 - 93

15. Respiratory resistance of patients during cardiac stress testing with adenosine: Is dyspnea a sign of bronchospasm?

    • Eva Fricke
    • Elke Esdorn
    • Oliver Lindner

    Original Articles Pages: 94 - 99

16. Impact of inducible ischemia by stress SPECT in cardiac risk assessment in diabetic patients: Rationale and design of a prospective, multicenter trial

    • Mario Petretta
    • Wanda Acampa
    • the Impact of Inducible Ischemia by Stress SPECT (IDIS) Investigators

    Original Articles Pages: 100 - 104

17. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in the assessment of myocardial infarction and viability

    • Antti Saraste
    • Stephan Nekolla
    • Markus Schwaiger

    Advances in Nonnuclear Imaging Technologies Pages: 105 - 117

18. Hybrid PET/CT is greater than the sum of its parts

    • Marcelo F. Di Carli
    • Rory Hachamovitch

    Controversies in nuclear cardiology: Protagonist Pages: 118 - 122

19. Hybrid cardiac imaging: More than the sum of its parts?

    • Oliver Gaemperli
    • Philipp A. Kaufmann

    Controversies in Nuclear Cardiology: Antagonist Pages: 123 - 126

20. Assessment of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony by phase analysis of ECG-gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

    • Ji Chen
    • Maureen M. Henneman
    • Ernest V. Garcia

    Review Article Pages: 127 - 136

21. Nuclear medicine imaging of takotsubo cardiomyopathy: Typical form and midventricular ballooning syndrome

    • Sébastien Cimarelli
    • Alessio Imperiale
    • André Constantinesco

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: 137 - 141

22. Is this heart broken?

    • Mati Friehling
    • Bryan O'Connell
    • Prem Soman

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: 142 - 145

23. Surgical glue for repair of the aortic root as a possible explanation for increased F-18 FDG uptake

    • Laura R. A. Schouten
    • Hein J. Verberne
    • Barbara J. M. Mulder

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: 146 - 147

24. President’s message: Meeting the challenges

    • William A. Van Decker

    Journal of Nuclear Cardiology ASNC Update Pages: 148 - 149

25. Calendar

    Journal of Nuclear Cardiology ASNC Update Pages: 149 - 149

26. Correction of iodine-123-labeled meta-iodobenzylguanidine uptake with multi-window methods for standardization of the heart-to-mediastinum ratio

    • Kenichi Nakajima
    • Kosuke Matsubara
    • Seigo Kinuya

    Erratum Pages: 150 - 150

27. Disappearing hot spot on an indium 111 white cell scan: A case report

    • Sanjiv Petkar
    • Tahir Hamid
    • Parthiban Arumugam

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: e1 - e5

28. Clinical imaging for prevention: Directed strategies for improved detection of presymptomatic patients with undetected atherosclerosis—Part I: Clinical imaging for prevention

    • Leslee J. Shaw
    • Daniel S. Berman
    • William Wijns

    ASNC Information Statement Pages: e6 - e19