{"title":"Correction to: Current clinical applications of Cerenkov luminescence for intraoperative molecular imaging.","authors":"Natalie Boykoff, Jan Grimm","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06832-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06832-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141579334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Vonk, R A J O Dierckx, S Keereweer, A L Vahrmeijer, F A Verburg, S Kruijff
{"title":"Why and how optical molecular imaging should further be catalyzed by nuclear medicine and molecular imaging: report from the EANM piloting group.","authors":"J Vonk, R A J O Dierckx, S Keereweer, A L Vahrmeijer, F A Verburg, S Kruijff","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06729-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06729-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141087429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter to the editor concerning 'Whole pelvis vs. hemi pelvis elective nodal radiotherapy in patients with PSMA-positive nodal recurrence after radical prostatectomy - a retrospective multi-institutional propensity score analysis.'","authors":"Aysenur Elmali, Cem Onal","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06876-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06876-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141999612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arthur Varoquaux, Nicolas Fakhry, Ugo Scemama, David Taïeb
{"title":"Differentiation of vagal from carotid paraganglioma on unenhanced PET/CT: the \"sweet potato\" shape on PET.","authors":"Arthur Varoquaux, Nicolas Fakhry, Ugo Scemama, David Taïeb","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06776-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06776-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141199938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis, preclinical evaluation and pilot clinical translation of [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22, a novel nanobody PET probe targeting CLDN18.2 of gastrointestinal cancer.","authors":"Rongxi Wang, Zhidong Bai, Wentao Zhong, Chenzhen Li, Jiarou Wang, Jialin Xiang, Junfeng Du, Bing Jia, Zhaohui Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06808-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06808-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Claudin18.2 (CLDN18.2) is a novel target for diagnosis and therapy of gastrointestinal cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and feasibility of a novel CLDN18.2-targeted nanobody, PMD22, labeled with gallium-68 ([<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga), for detecting CLDN18.2 expression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer using PET/CT imaging.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>[<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22 was synthesized based on the nanobody, and its cell binding properties were assayed. Preclinical pharmacokinetics were determined in CLDN18.2-positive xenografts using microPET/CT. Effective dosimetry of [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22 was evaluated in 5 gastrointestinal cancer patients, and PET/CT imaging of [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22 and [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG were performed head-to-head in 16 gastrointestinal cancer patients. Pathological tissues were obtained for CLDN18.2 immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and comparative analysis with PET/CT findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cell binding assay showed that [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22 had a higher binding ability to AGS<sup>CLDN18.2</sup> and BGC823<sup>CLDN18.2</sup> cells than to AGS and BGC823 cells (p < 0.001). MicroPET/CT images showed that [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22 rapidly accumulated in AGS<sup>CLDN18.2</sup> and BGC823<sup>CLDN18.2</sup> tumors, and high contrast tumor to background imaging was clearly observed. In the pilot study, the effective dose of [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22 was 1.68E-02 ± 1.45E-02 mSv/MBq, and the CLDN18.2 IHC staining result was highly correlated with the SUV<sub>max</sub>/BKG<sub>stomach</sub> of [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22 (r<sub>s</sub> = 0.848, p < 0.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A novel [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-labeled nanobody probe targeting CLDN18.2, [<sup>68</sup>Ga]Ga-PMD22, was established and preliminarily proved to be safe and effective in revealing CLDN18.2-positive gastrointestinal cancer, providing a basis for the clinical translation of the agent.</p><p><strong>Clinical trial registration: </strong>This study was registered on the ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05937919).</p>","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141456064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnostic imaging of the diabetic foot.","authors":"Michael M Graham","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06899-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06899-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142119295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carla Oliveira, Francisco Oliveira, Cláudia Constantino, Celeste Alves, Maria José Brito, Fátima Cardoso, Durval C Costa
{"title":"Baseline [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET/CT and MRI first-order breast tumor features do not improve pathological complete response prediction to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.","authors":"Carla Oliveira, Francisco Oliveira, Cláudia Constantino, Celeste Alves, Maria José Brito, Fátima Cardoso, Durval C Costa","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06815-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06815-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To verify the ability of pretreatment [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET/CT and T1-weighed dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to predict pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer (BC) patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective study includes patients with BC of no special type submitted to baseline [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET/CT, NAC and surgery. [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET-based features reflecting intensity and heterogeneity of tracer uptake were extracted from the primary BC and suspicious axillary lymph nodes (ALN), for comparative analysis related to NAC response (pCR vs. non-pCR). Multivariate logistic regression was performed for response prediction combining the breast tumor-extracted PET-based features and clinicopathological features. A subanalysis was performed in a patients' subsample by adding breast tumor-extracted first-order MRI-based features to the multivariate logistic regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 170 tumors from 168 patients were included. pCR was observed in 60/170 tumors (20/107 luminal B-like, 25/45 triple-negative and 15/18 HER2-enriched surrogate molecular subtypes). Higher intensity and higher heterogeneity of [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG uptake in the primary BC were associated with NAC response in HER2-negative tumors (immunohistochemistry score 0, 1 + or 2 + non-amplified by in situ hybridization). Also, higher intensity of tracer uptake was observed in ALN in the pCR group among HER2-negative tumors. No [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET-based features were associated with pCR in the other subgroup analyses. A subsample of 103 tumors was also submitted to extraction of MRI-based features. When combined with clinicopathological features, neither [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET nor MRI-based features had additional value for pCR prediction. The only significant predictors were estrogen receptor status, HER2 expression and grade.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Pretreatment [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET-based features from primary BC and ALN are not associated with response to NAC, except in HER2-negative tumors. As compared with pathological features, no breast tumor-extracted PET or MRI-based feature improved response prediction.</p>","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11445295/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141450161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter to the editor concerning \"The status of nuclear medicine in China: the first official national survey\".","authors":"Yifan Dong, Shuo Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06829-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06829-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11457675/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141534056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathalie L Albert, Matthias Preusser, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger, Nelleke Tolboom, Ian Law, Joshua D Palmer, Eric Guedj, Julia Furtner, Francesco Fraioli, Raymond Y Huang, Derek R Johnson, Christophe M Deroose, Ken Herrmann, Michael Vogelbaum, Susan Chang, Joerg-Christian Tonn, Michael Weller, Patrick Y Wen, Martin J van den Bent, Antoine Verger, Jana Ivanidze, Norbert Galldiks
{"title":"Joint EANM/EANO/RANO/SNMMI practice guideline/procedure standards for diagnostics and therapy (theranostics) of meningiomas using radiolabeled somatostatin receptor ligands: version 1.0.","authors":"Nathalie L Albert, Matthias Preusser, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger, Nelleke Tolboom, Ian Law, Joshua D Palmer, Eric Guedj, Julia Furtner, Francesco Fraioli, Raymond Y Huang, Derek R Johnson, Christophe M Deroose, Ken Herrmann, Michael Vogelbaum, Susan Chang, Joerg-Christian Tonn, Michael Weller, Patrick Y Wen, Martin J van den Bent, Antoine Verger, Jana Ivanidze, Norbert Galldiks","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06783-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06783-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To provide practice guideline/procedure standards for diagnostics and therapy (theranostics) of meningiomas using radiolabeled somatostatin receptor (SSTR) ligands.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This joint practice guideline/procedure standard was collaboratively developed by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), the European Association of Neurooncology (EANO), and the PET task force of the Response Assessment in Neurooncology Working Group (PET/RANO).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Positron emission tomography (PET) using somatostatin receptor (SSTR) ligands can detect meningioma tissue with high sensitivity and specificity and may provide clinically relevant information beyond that obtained from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) imaging alone. SSTR-directed PET imaging can be particularly useful for differential diagnosis, delineation of meningioma extent, detection of osseous involvement, and the differentiation between posttherapeutic scar tissue and tumour recurrence. Moreover, SSTR-peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is an emerging investigational treatment approach for meningioma.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These practice guidelines will define procedure standards for the application of PET imaging in patients with meningiomas and related SSTR-targeted PRRTs in routine practice and clinical trials and will help to harmonize data acquisition and interpretation across centers, facilitate comparability of studies, and to collect larger databases. The current document provides additional information to the evidence-based recommendations from the PET/RANO Working Group regarding the utilization of PET imaging in meningiomas Galldiks (Neuro Oncol. 2017;19(12):1576-87). The information provided should be considered in the context of local conditions and regulations.</p>","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11445317/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141426525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antoine Verger, Diego Cecchin, Eric Guedj, Nathalie L Albert, Matthias Brendel, Francesco Fraioli, Nelleke Tolboom, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger, Igor Yakushev, Donatienne Van Weehaeghe, Pablo Aguiar Fernandez, Valentina Garibotto, Laetitia Imbert
{"title":"EANM perspectives for CZT SPECT in brain applications.","authors":"Antoine Verger, Diego Cecchin, Eric Guedj, Nathalie L Albert, Matthias Brendel, Francesco Fraioli, Nelleke Tolboom, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger, Igor Yakushev, Donatienne Van Weehaeghe, Pablo Aguiar Fernandez, Valentina Garibotto, Laetitia Imbert","doi":"10.1007/s00259-024-06788-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00259-024-06788-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11909,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141300321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}