1. Costs of health care: a lopsided debate

   • P.J. Ell
   • J. Deszy

   Editorial Pages: 435 - 436

2. Respective roles of scatter, attenuation, depth-dependent collimator response and finite spatial resolution in cardiac single-photon emission tomography quantitation: a Monte Carlo study

   • Georges N. El Fakhri
   • Irène Buvat
   • Robert Di Paola

   Original article Pages: 437 - 446

3. An automatic classification technique for attenuation correction in positron emission tomography

   • V. Bettinardi
   • E. Pagani
   • F. Fazio

   Original article Pages: 447 - 458

4. Attenuation correction improves the detection of viable myocardium by thallium-201 cardiac tomography in patients with previous myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction

   • Hans Jürgen Gallowitsch
   • Oliver Unterweger
   • Peter Lind

   Original article Pages: 459 - 466

5. Dobutamine stress thallium-201 single-photon emission tomography versus echocardiography for evaluation of the extent and location of coronary artery disease late after myocardial infarction

   • Abdou Elhendy
   • Jeroen J. Bax
   • Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

   Original article Pages: 467 - 473

6. The kinetics of β-methyl-substituted labelled fatty acids in ischaemic myocardium: an analysis in man and with a blood-perfused isolated heart model

   • Pierre Y. Marie
   • Patrick Menu
   • Alain Bertrand

   Original article Pages: 474 - 482

7. Normal appearances of technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid in children on planar imaging

   • Pawana Pusuwan
   • Leonardo Reyes
   • Isky Gordon

   Original article Pages: 483 - 488

8. Rapid renal single-photon emission tomography by continuous infusion of iridium-191m

   • S. Ted Treves
   • Leo Fung
   • Alan B. Packard

   Original article Pages: 489 - 493

9. Evaluation in mice of some iodinated melanoma imaging agents using cryosectioning and multi-wire proportional counting

   • Pierre Labarre
   • Janine Papon
   • Jean-Claude Madelmont

   Original article Pages: 494 - 498

10. Preoperative assessment of cervical lymph nodes in head and neck cancer with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose using a dual-head coincidence camera: a pilot study

    • Marcel P. M. Stokkel
    • Frans-Willem ten Broek
    • Peter P. van Rijk

    Original article Pages: 499 - 503

11. Measurement of lymphatic function with technetium-99m-labelled polyclonal immunoglobulin

    • W. Svensson
    • D. M. Glass
    • A. M. Peters

    Original article Pages: 504 - 510

12. Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy to predict the clinical evolution and therapeutic response of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy

    • Marie Nocaudie
    • Alban Bailliez
    • Xavier Marchandise

    Original article Pages: 511 - 517

13. Simplified reference region model for the kinetic analysis of [^99mTc]TRODAT-1 binding to dopamine transporters in nonhuman primates using single-photon emission tomography

    • Paul D. Acton
    • Steven A. Kushner
    • Hank F. Kung

    Original article Pages: 518 - 526

14. Recommendations for implementing SPECT instrumentation quality control

    • Horace Hines
    • Raffi Kayayan
    • R. Lin Sinclair

    Occasional survey Pages: 527 - 532

15. Nuclear medicine procedures in lung cancer

    • Arturo Chiti
    • Frodo A. G. Schreiner
    • Emilio Bombardieri

    Review article Pages: 533 - 555