1. New technology and the cost of health care

   • George A. Beller

   Editor’s Page Pages: 515 - 517

2. Endothelial function for screening for coronary artery disease: A bridge too far?

   • Alexander Jacobsen
   • Roxy Senior

   Editorial Pages: 518 - 519

3. Defining the “gold standard”: A changing paradigm

   • Ami E. Iskandrian

   Editorial Pages: 520 - 522

4. Mental stress ischemia: present status and future goals

   • Matthew M. Burg
   • Aseem Vashist
   • Robert Soufer

   Editorial Point of View Pages: 523 - 529

5. Diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging in a study population without post-test referral bias

   • Allan Johansen
   • Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen
   • Torben Haghfelt

   Original articles Pages: 530 - 537

6. Flow-mediated vasodilation predicts the presence and extent of coronary artery disease assessed by stress thallium imaging

   • Wen-Chih Wu
   • Satish C. Sharma
   • Charles B. Eaton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 538 - 544

7. Hemodynamic evaluation of saphenous vein coronary artery bypass grafts: Relative merits of doppler flow velocity and SPECT perfusion imaging

   • Liesbeth P. Salm
   • Jeroen J. Bax
   • Ernst E. van der Wall

   OriginalPaper Pages: 545 - 552

8. Automatic quantification of right ventricular volumes and right ventricular ejection fraction with gated blood pool SPECT: Comparison of 8- and 16-frame gated blood pool SPECT with first-pass radionuclide angiography

   • Seong-Jang Kim
   • In-Ju Kim
   • Dong-Soo Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 553 - 559

9. Assessment of left ventricular function during upright treadmill exercise with tantalum 178 and multiwire gamma camera

   • Jaekyeong Heo
   • Thein Htay
   • Ami E. Iskandrian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 560 - 566

10. Transmission scan truncation with small-field-of-view dedicated cardiac SPECT systems: Impact and automated quality control

    • Ji Chen
    • James R. Galt
    • Ernest V. Garcia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 567 - 573

11. Impact of hormone replacement on myocardial fatty acid metabolism: Potential role of estrogen

    • Pilar Herrero
    • Pablo F. Soto
    • Robert J. Gropler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 574 - 581

12. Assessment of myocardial perfusion with real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography: Methodology and clinical applications

    • Abdou Elhendy
    • Thomas R. Porter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 582 - 590

13. Antibodies for molecular imaging in the cardiovascular system

    • Ban-An Khaw

    OriginalPaper Pages: 591 - 604

14. Significant left ventricular hypertrophy on SPECT imaging in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a comparative image with cardiac magnetic resonance

    • Akash Ghai
    • Evelyn Horn
    • Sabahat Bokhari

    OriginalPaper Pages: 605 - 606

15. Abnormal photopenic area on nuclear perfusion imaging

    • Muhammad Raza
    • Mrinalini Meesala
    • Diwakar Jain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 609

16. Autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells labeled with Tc-99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime scintigraphy after intracoronary stem cell therapy in acute myocardial infarction

    • Claudio T. Mesquita
    • Patrícia L. Correa
    • Hans Fernando R. Dohman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 610 - 612

17. ASNC Journal of nuclear cardiology news Update

    • Kim Allan Williams

    News Pages: 613 - 615

18. Calendar

    Events Pages: 615 - 615