1. December 2002

   • P. Ell

   Editorial Pages: 1555 - 1556

2. Nuclear medicine and radiology: where are they going?

   • Wolfram H. Knapp

   Editorial Pages: 1557 - 1560

3. Radioguided localisation of non-palpable breast lesions and simultaneous sentinel lymph node mapping

   • Alfredo Barros
   • Maria Cardoso
   • Christina Pelizon

   Original Article Pages: 1561 - 1565

4. Parathyroid ^99mTc-sestamibi scintigraphy: dual-tracer subtraction is superior to double-phase washout

   • William D. Leslie
   • Jacqueline O. Dupont
   • Karl T. Riese

   Original Article Pages: 1566 - 1570

5. Clinical value of somatostatin receptor imaging in patients with suspected head and neck paragangliomas

   • Matthias Schmidt
   • Eva Fischer
   • Harald Schicha

   Original Article Pages: 1571 - 1580

6. Patient dosimetry for ¹³¹I-MIBG therapy for neuroendocrine tumours based on ¹²³I-MIBG scans

   • Myriam Monsieurs
   • Boudewijn Brans
   • Hubert Thierens

   Original Article Pages: 1581 - 1587

7. Cardiac phantom measurement validating the methodology for a cardiac multi-centre trial with positron emission tomography

   • Johan Nuyts
   • Luc Mortelmans
   • Alex Maes

   Original Article Pages: 1588 - 1593

8. Interpretation of reverse redistribution of ^99mTc-tetrofosmin in patients with acute myocardial infarction

   • Yoshihide Hirata
   • Michitaka Takamiya
   • Hiroki Sugihara

   Original Article Pages: 1594 - 1599

9. Variability of insulin-stimulated myocardial glucose uptake in healthy elderly subjects

   • Klaus F. Kofoed
   • Jens D. Hove
   • Henning Kelbæk

   Original Article Pages: 1600 - 1607

10. A comparison of three radionuclide myocardial perfusion tracers in clinical practice: the ROBUST study

    • Akhil Kapur
    • Katherine A. Latus
    • Richard S. Underwood

    Original Article Pages: 1608 - 1616

11. 14(R,S)-[¹⁸F]Fluoro-6-thia-heptadecanoic acid as a tracer of free fatty acid uptake and oxidation in myocardium and skeletal muscle

    • Teemu Takala
    • Pirjo Nuutila
    • Juhani Knuuti

    Original Article Pages: 1617 - 1622

12. Clinical impact of diagnostic SPET investigations with a dopamine re-uptake ligand

    • Annemette Løkkegaard
    • Lene M. Werdelin
    • Lars Friberg

    Original Article Pages: 1623 - 1629

13. Lean body mass-based standardized uptake value, derived from a predictive equation, might be misleading in PET studies

    • Taner Erselcan
    • Bulent Turgut
    • Semra Ozdemir

    Original Article Pages: 1630 - 1638

14. Use of a corrected standardized uptake value based on the lesion size on CT permits accurate characterization of lung nodules on FDG-PET

    • Marc Hickeson
    • Mijin Yun
    • Abass Alavi

    Original Article Pages: 1639 - 1647

15. Determinants of [¹³N]ammonia kinetics in hepatic PET experiments: a minimal recirculatory model

    • Michael Weiss
    • Klaus Roelsgaard
    • Susanne Keiding

    Original Article Pages: 1648 - 1656

16. Comparison between radioimmunotherapy and external beam radiation therapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

    • Zhao-Chong Zeng
    • Zhao-You Tang
    • Guo-Liang Jiang

    Original Article Pages: 1657 - 1668

17. Benefits of combined radioimmunotherapy and anti-angiogenic therapy in a liver metastasis model of human colon cancer cells

    • Xiao-Feng Li
    • Seigo Kinuya
    • Norihisa Tonami

    Original Article Pages: 1669 - 1674

18. Dysregulation of coronary microvascular reactivity in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    • Mitsuru Momose
    • Claudia Abletshauser
    • Frank M. Bengel

    Short Communication Pages: 1675 - 1679

19. Imaging cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase-4 in human brain with R-[¹¹C]rolipram and positron emission tomography

    • Jean N. DaSilva
    • Celia M. Lourenco
    • Sylvain Houle

    Short Communication Pages: 1680 - 1683

20. Thyroid Cancer

    Book reviews 27 November 2002 Pages: 1684 - 1684

21. Functional brain imaging in the dementias: role in early detection, differential diagnosis, and longitudinal studies

    • Michael D. Devous

    Review Article Pages: 1685 - 1696

22. New approaches in targeting intracerebral tumours with ⁹⁰Y-labelled radiopeptides

    • J. Buscombe
    • K. Pigott

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 1697 - 1698

23. Nuclear medicine technologist training in European countries

    • Gerold Unterhumer

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 1699 - 1699

24. Nuclear medicine technologists training in European countries: a reply

    • Piotr Lass

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 1700 - 1700

25. December 2002

    News & Views 27 November 2002 Pages: 1701 - 1703

26. Matching the changing need of thyroxin after radioiodine therapy by TSH-controlled substitution. A prospective study over 8 years of 78 female patients with toxic thyroid adenomas or toxic nodular goiters.

    • J. Markwardt
    • J. Krätschmer
    • K. König

    Erratum Pages: 1704 - 1704

27. Preoperative brain mapping using [¹⁵O]water activation PET provides evidence on altered language networks in an adult brain tumour patient

    • Philipp T. Meyer
    • Laszlo Sturz
    • Udalrich Buell

    Image of the Month Pages: 1705 - 1705

28. December 2002

    Announcements 27 November 2002 Pages: 1706 - 1706