1. Publishing in a Medical Journal: insights from successive Editors-in-chief of JNC

   • Ahmed Tawakol

   EDITOR'S PAGE 23 October 2023 Pages: 2259 - 2260

2. Confessions, the JNC family, and final farewell

   • Ami E. Iskandrian

   EDITOR'S PAGE 02 November 2023 Pages: 2261 - 2265

   

3. Advancing the mission of cardiovascular molecular imaging

   • Sharmila Dorbala
   • Wunan Zhou
   • Mehran Sadeghi

   Editorial 02 March 2021 Pages: 2266 - 2267

4. Invasive vs non-invasive testing

   • Ami E. Iskandrian

   GREAT DEBATES 30 October 2023 Pages: 2268 - 2268

5. In 2023 invasive coronary angiography is preferred to PET myocardial perfusion imaging for the initial work-up of a symptomatic patient with a high coronary artery calcium score

   • Daniel O. Johnsrud
   • Steven C. Port

   GREAT DEBATES 16 October 2023 Pages: 2269 - 2272

6. In 2023 PET myocardial perfusion imaging is preferred to invasive coronary angiography for the initial work-up of a symptomatic patient with a high coronary artery calcium score

   • Timothy M. Bateman

   GREAT DEBATES 10 November 2023 Pages: 2273 - 2278

   

7. What is this image? 2023: Image 4

   WHAT IS THIS IMAGE? 11 October 2023 Pages: 2279 - 2279

   

8. What is this image? 2023 Image 3 results: Cardiac tuberculosis presenting as cardiac mass: role of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in monitoring response to treatment

   • Sarvesh Loharkar
   • Sunita N. Sonavane
   • Sandip Basu

   WHAT IS THIS IMAGE? 02 October 2023 Pages: 2280 - 2288

   

9. Myocardial creep and cardiorespiratory motion correction improves diagnostic accuracy of Rubidium-82 cardiac positron emission tomography

   • Martin Lyngby Lassen
   • Thomas Rasmussen
   • Philip Hasbak

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 25 August 2023 Pages: 2289 - 2300

   

10. Casting aside the creep: harnessing cardiorespiratory dynamics to optimize myocardial flow assessment in cardiac PET

    • Bruno B. Lima
    • Dominik C. Benz

    EDITORIAL 20 September 2023 Pages: 2301 - 2302

11. Increasing frequency of dyspnea among patients referred for cardiac stress testing

    • Alan Rozanski
    • Heidi Gransar
    • Daniel S. Berman

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 October 2023 Pages: 2303 - 2313

    

12. 4D display of CT LV endocardial and epicardial models morphed from PET Rb-82 perfusion studies accurately quantifies segmental myocardial thickening

    • Marina Piccinelli
    • C. David Cooke
    • Ernest V. Garcia

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 May 2023 Pages: 2314 - 2326

    

13. Pentoxifylline reduces inflammation and prevents myocardial perfusion derangements in experimental chronic Chagas’ cardiomyopathy

    • Denise Mayumi Tanaka
    • Camila Godoy Fabricio
    • Marcus Vinícius Simões

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 May 2023 Pages: 2327 - 2337

    

14. Immediate recruitment of dormant coronary collaterals can provide more than half of normal resting perfusion during coronary occlusion in patients with coronary artery disease

    • Brandon J. Reid
    • Thomas Lindow
    • Usaid Allahwala

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 06 June 2023 Pages: 2338 - 2345

    

15. The Never-ending Story: Assessing coronary collateral circulation with myocardial perfusion imaging

    • Roberto Sciagrà
    • Flavia Linguanti

    EDITORIAL 08 June 2023 Pages: 2346 - 2348

16. Combined evaluation of CAC score and myocardial perfusion imaging in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease: where are we and what do the data say

    • Teresa Mannarino
    • Adriana D’Antonio
    • Wanda Acampa

    REVIEW ARTICLE Open access 10 May 2023 Pages: 2349 - 2360

    

17. Hybrid nuclear/CT cardiac imaging: Pros cons and the future

    • Yafim Brodov
    • Pierre Chouraqui
    • Orly Goitein

    EDITORIAL 18 August 2023 Pages: 2361 - 2364

    

18. ¹⁸F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography following coronary computed tomography angiography in predicting long-term coronary events: a 5-year follow-up study

    • Toshiro Kitagawa
    • Ko Sasaki
    • Yukiko Nakano

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 May 2023 Pages: 2365 - 2378

    

19. Autonomic denervation, myocardial hypoperfusion and fibrosis may predict ventricular arrhythmia in the early stages of Chagas cardiomyopathy

    • Adriana Soares Xavier de Brito
    • Renata Junqueira Moll-Bernardes
    • Andrea Silvestre de Sousa

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 May 2023 Pages: 2379 - 2388

    

20. Current vision of a disease with high mortality that is progressively dispersing throughout the world: Chagasic heart disease

    • Guillermo Romero-Farina
    • Santiago Aguadé-Bruix

    Editorial 06 June 2023 Pages: 2389 - 2399

    

21. ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT-derived total lesion glycolysis predicts abscess formation in patients with surgically confirmed infective endocarditis: Results of a retrospective study at a tertiary center

    • Sabine Julia Maria Sag
    • Karin Menhart
    • Can Martin Sag

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 01 June 2023 Pages: 2400 - 2414

    

22. Infective endocarditis related abscess is an important complication and requires awareness on all imaging modalities

    • Maurits S. H. Blomjous
    • Ricardo P. J. Budde

    EDITORIAL 16 August 2023 Pages: 2415 - 2417

23. Improving evaluation for TTR amyloidosis by interactive filtering of Tc-99 m PYP SPECT images. The role for “clean blood pool” imaging

    • Christopher L. Hansen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 May 2023 Pages: 2418 - 2426

    

24. Observer studies of image quality of denoising reduced-count cardiac single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging by three-dimensional Gaussian post-reconstruction filtering and deep learning

    • P. Hendrik Pretorius
    • Junchi Liu
    • Michael A. King

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 May 2023 Pages: 2427 - 2437

    

25. CME INSTRUCTIONS: 2022 Artificial intelligence primer for the nuclear cardiologist

    CME INSTRUCTIONS 27 November 2023 Pages: 2438 - 2440

26. 2022 Artificial intelligence primer for the nuclear cardiologist

    • Manish Motwani

    Theme Articles 19 July 2022 Pages: 2441 - 2453

    

27. Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of heparin in suppressing physiological myocardial FDG uptake in PET/CT

    • Shan-Ho Chan
    • Cheng-Kai Huang
    • Jay Wu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 31 May 2023 Pages: 2454 - 2463

    

28. Diagnostic accuracy of bone scintigraphy imaging for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Nanki Ahluwalia
    • Golnaz Roshankar
    • Robert J. H. Miller

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 May 2023 Pages: 2464 - 2476

    

29. Exponential dosing to standardize myocardial perfusion image quality with rubidium-82 PET

    • Anahita Tavoosi
    • Ritika Khetarpal
    • Robert A. deKemp

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 31 May 2023 Pages: 2477 - 2489

    

30. FDG-PET/CT and rest myocardial perfusion imaging to predict high-degree atrioventricular block recovery in cardiac sarcoidosis

    • Yousif A. Lucinian
    • Patrick Martineau
    • Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 31 May 2023 Pages: 2490 - 2500

    

31. Can FDG PET/CT predict AV nodal recovery in cardiac sarcoidosis?

    • Leah A. John
    • Usha B. Tedrow
    • Sanjay Divakaran

    EDITORIAL 20 July 2023 Pages: 2501 - 2503

    

32. Pulmonary blood volume assessment from a standard cardiac rubidium-82 imaging protocol: impact of adenosine-induced hyperemia

    • Martin Lyngby Lassen
    • Christina Byrne
    • Philip Hasbak

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 22 June 2023 Pages: 2504 - 2513

    

33. Comparison of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the assessment of myocardial viability: meta-analysis and systematic review

    • Mehul Adhaduk
    • Bishow Paudel
    • Michael Giudici

    REVIEW ARTICLE 27 September 2023 Pages: 2514 - 2524

    

34. Complete resolution of focal-on-diffuse myocardial activity pattern on FDG PET-CT by prolonging the dietary preparation protocol in cardiac sarcoidosis

    • Prerna Kherajani
    • Ayman A. Farag
    • Pradeep Bhambhvani

    CASE PRESENTATION CORNER 31 July 2023 Pages: 2525 - 2530

    

35. Prevalence and significance of extracardiac uptake on pyrophosphate imaging in the SCAN-MP study: the first 379 cases

    • Nicholas Chan
    • Andrew J. Einstein
    • Mathew S. Maurer

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 June 2023 Pages: 2531 - 2539

    

36. Extra-cardiac uptake on technetium-99m pyrophosphate (Tc-99m PYP) scan: not just a matter of the heart

    • Yiu Ming Khor
    • Sharmila Dorbala

    Editorial 19 July 2023 Pages: 2540 - 2543

37. Potential utility of SPECT/CT with 99mTc-Tektrotyd for imaging of post-myocardial infarction inflammation

    • Svetlana I. Sazonova
    • Julia N. Ilyushenkova
    • Vyacheslav V. Ryabov

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 June 2023 Pages: 2544 - 2555

    

38. Targeted imaging: the key for direct visualization of myocardial inflammation in patients?

    • Theresa Reiter

    EDITORIAL Open access 20 September 2023 Pages: 2556 - 2558

39. Coronary artery calcium score and pre-test probabilities as gatekeepers to predict and rule out perfusion defects in positron emission tomography

    • Olivier F. Clerc
    • Simon M. Frey
    • Michael J. Zellweger

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 06 July 2023 Pages: 2559 - 2573

    

40. Coronary artery calcium score as a gatekeeper: are we there yet?

    • Bonnia Liu
    • Nathan Better

    EDITORIAL 12 September 2023 Pages: 2574 - 2577

41. Prognostic value of myocardial flow reserve measured with CZT cardiac-dedicated SPECT low-dose dynamic myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with INOCA

    • Linlin Li
    • Zekun Pang
    • Jianming Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 July 2023 Pages: 2578 - 2592

    

42. Machine learning to predict hemodynamically significant CAD based on traditional risk factors, coronary artery calcium and epicardial fat volume

    • Wenji Yu
    • Le Yang
    • Yuetao Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 July 2023 Pages: 2593 - 2606

    

43. Comparison of cardio-focal and chest reconstruction of technetium-99m pyrophosphate scintigraphy for diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: a quality assurance study

    • Cigdem Akincioglu
    • Mukunthan Murthi
    • Saurabh Malhotra

    BRIEF REPORT 03 April 2023 Pages: 2607 - 2614

    

44. Single photon emission computed tomography pyrophosphate imaging for transthyretin cardiac amyloid

    • Olivia Hudson
    • Fadi G. Hage

    Editorial 26 October 2023 Pages: 2615 - 2617

45. SPECT myocardial blood flow quantitation for the detection of angiographic stenoses with cardiac-dedicated CZT SPECT

    • Jie Zhang
    • Jian Xie
    • Bailing Hsu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 July 2023 Pages: 2618 - 2632

    

46. Prognosis and follow-up of patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis treated conservatively in relation to WBC-SPECT imaging

    • Julia Grambow-Velilla
    • Besma Mahida
    • Fabien Hyafil

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 July 2023 Pages: 2633 - 2643

    

47. Accurate and efficient rapid acquisition early post-injection stress-first CZT SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with tetrofosmin and attenuation correction

    • James A. Case
    • Staci A. Courter
    • Timothy M. Bateman

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 July 2023 Pages: 2644 - 2654

    

48. Time-efficient cardiac imaging: early post-injection stress-first protocol myocardial perfusion SPECT with a CZT camera

    • Luca Camoni
    • Francesco Dondi

    EDITORIAL 31 August 2023 Pages: 2655 - 2657

49. A new perspective on an old method: gated SPECT imaging for left ventricular contractile function assessment

    • Lucas San Miguel
    • Ezequiel Goldschmidt
    • Osvaldo H. Masoli

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 July 2023 Pages: 2658 - 2665

    

50. Coronary vascular dysfunction is associated with increased risk of death in patients with peripheral artery disease

    • Poghni A. Peri-Okonny
    • Krishna K. Patel
    • Timothy M. Bateman

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 31 July 2023 Pages: 2666 - 2675