1338 Amino Acid Transport Measurements

1375 Scintigraphic Assessment of Colonic Transport

1387 Clinical Utility of ProstateSpecific Antigen

1394 lndium111-Labeled Nonspecific lgG

1429 Technetium-99m-MIBI and Thallium-201 Uptake in Actinoycosis

A Full Table of Contents Begins on Page 4A, Annotations on Pages 7A-8A

@ The Official Publication of @ The Society of , Inc. Anti-Carcinoembryonic Antigen A Noninvasive Scintigraphic Immunoscintigraphy (Technetium Assessment of the Colonic Transit 99m-Mab BW 431/26) and Serum JNM of Nondigestible Solids in Man CEA Levels in Patients with Suspected Prhnary and Recurrent The transit of “‘In-labeledcapsules Colorectal Carcainoma through the gastrointestinal tract was determined in volunteers. . . . Page1375 One hundredforty-onepatientswere investigated for recurrent cancer with 9@―Tc-MabBW 431/26 immunoscin The Comparison of 2- ‘8F-2- Use of Technetium-HMPAO To tigraphy. Whole-body scans were Deoxyglucose and I5-(ortho-'231- Demonstrate Changes in Cerebral performed 5.50 hr postinjection, and phenyl)-Pentadecanoic Acid Uptake Blood Flow Reserve Following SPECTof the abdominalregion was in Persisting Defects on Carotid Endarterectomy done 6 and 24 hr postinjection. Thallium-201 ibmography in Twenty subjects with unilateral inter Page 1319 Myocardial Infarction nal carotid artery stenosis underwent Myocardial uptake of glucose and fat technetium-labeled HMPAO cerebral Indium-lU-labeled B72.3 ty acids into 201'flredistribution SPECT during acetazolamide Monoclonal in the defects were studied in 32 patients dysautoregulation before and after Detection and Staging of Breast with myocardial infarction by internal carotid endarterectomy. Cancer: A Phase 1 Study using FDG oPPA. Page 1382 Sixteen patients with primary breast Page 1353 cancer were studied with a The Clinical Utility of PrOstate pancarcinoma Mab B72.3, and IgGi Insular Carcinoma: A Distinct Specific Antigen and Bone molecule directed against tumor Thyroid Carcinoma with Associated in Prostate Cancer associated glycoprotein. Digital, Iodlne-131 Localization Follow-up planar, and SPECT images were ob Patients with pathologically confirmed tamed serially to 96 hr Page1326 A 20-yr review of 35 CaSeSdiagnosed as anaplastic or undifferentiated prostate cancer, definitive prostatec thyroid carcinoma revealed five tomy, and/or radiation therapy more Increased Amino Acid Transport patients with insular carcinoma. Four than 3 mo prior to bone scanning (and into Brain Tumorse Measured by patients showed postoperative ‘@‘I one bone scan and serum PSA sampi PET of L-(2- 1@F)Fluorotyrosine localization and received therapeutic ing within 3 mo of each other) were doses of ‘@‘I.Three of the four studied prospectively Page 1387 Seven patientswith dilated-phase hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, seven showed extrathyroidal ‘@‘Ilocalization in neoplastic lesions Page 1358 with dilated cardiomyopathy, and Quantitative Analysis of eight controls were imaged 48 hr after Radiophosphate Uptake in injection of 74 MBq of “In Editorial: Differentiating Anaplastic Asymptomatic Pbrous-Coated antimyosin Fab. Antimyosin scans Thyroid Carcinoma Page1363 Hip Endoprostheses were positive in greater than 90% of Quantitative analysis of radio the patients Page 1333 Multiple Swallow Test for the Quan phosphate uptake adjacent to the titative and Qualitative Evaluation femoral component of porous-coated Editorial: Which PET Radio of Esophageal Motility Disorders hip prostheses was conducted in 55 pharmaceutical for Brain Thmors patients to establish normal temporal Esophageal motility was evaluated Page 1346 changes Page1391 from the analysis of six consecutive swallowsin 86 patients. A sum image Confirmation of Short Solid-Food was generated comprising the Comparison of Indium-lU Lag Phase by Continuous representative inibrmation of an entire Nonspecific Polyclonal IgG with Monitoring of Gastric Emptying study. Calculation of the emptying Indium-ill-Leukocytes in a Canine Osteomyelitls Model Solid-phase gastric emptying in ten rates and characterization of the bolus normal weight males subjects was behavior was derived from the sun Osteomyelitis was surgically produced image and the single swallow data. studied using two opposed cameras in the proxial tibia of 10 dogs. A sham Page 1365 and constant monitoring. Each subject operation was perlbrmed on the other ingested a 300-g meal containing tibia. Serial imaging was performed labeled live pate. Lag phase was Editorial: Improving Esophageal over 13 wk later as the osteomyelitis determined by three techniques. Transit Scintigraphy progressed from acute to chronic. Page 1349 Page 1371 Page 1394

Annotations 7A Scintigraphic Pbrtrayal of Beta ———-—--—-—., -&-- —r@@ “-“@ in the Livers of Beagle Dogs Receptors in the Heart During an 18-moperiod, 99mTc SPECT studies were acquired 1 day Utilizing the beta antagonist, HMPAOleukocytes successfully im postinjection using a rotating gamma iodocyanopindolol, the authors have aged chronic femoro-femoral pro camera system with elliptical orbits in attemptedto develop a methodfor sthetic graft infection in a 77-yr-old a 360-degree rotation.Uniformity depictingbeta adrenergicreceptorsin man on several occasions, while corrected images were reconstructed the living heart Page1399 68Ga-citrateimaging showed negative by use of the circularharmonic results on two occasions . . . . Page1425 transfer algorithm. Liver volumes and P@stinjection L-Phenylalanine activities were computedfrom 1-pixel Increases Basal Ganglia Contrast in Editorial: Chronic Prosthetic thick (6.25 mm) transverseslices. PET Scans of 6- ‘@F-DOPA Vascular Graft Infection Visualiza Page 1442 tion with Gaffium-67 Page1427 An unlabeled amino acid, L Development and Biologic phenylalanine was infused into the Evaluation of a Kit for Preformed brains of rhesus monkeys beginning Technetium-99m-MIBI and Chelate Technetium-99m 15mm after the administration of ‘8F- Thallium-201 Uptake in Pulmonary Radlolabeling of an Antibody Fab DOPA in order to increase the ratio of Actinomycosis Fragment Using a Diamide specific-to-nonspecific accumulation A chest lesion in an 11-yr-oldboy Dimercaptide Chelating Agent of radioactivity,therebyimprovingthe presentingwith chest pain, cough, sensitivity of ‘8F-DOPAPET imaging The process involves efficient fatique, exertional dyspnea, and transchelation of 99mTcfrom gluconate of presynapticdopaminesystems. weight loss was imaged with 99mTc Page 1408 to 2, 3, 5, 6-tetrafluorophenyl and 20―fl Page1429 4,5-bis-S(1-ethoxyethyl) mercaptoacetamidopentanoate as an Bone Marrow Dosimetry in Rats Noninvasive Method To Obtain active ester ligand and subsequent Using Direct Thsue Counting After Input Function for Measuring conjugationto antibodylysine amine Injection of Radloiodinated Intact Tissue Glucose Utilization of functional groups Page1445 Monoclonal of F(ab')2 Thoracic and Abdominal Organs Fragments The inputfunctionis obtainedfrom Single Dose Subcutaneous Iodine Normal rats were injected intra the correctedtime-activitycurve of 131-lodohippurate for Determina venously with ‘@‘I-and ‘“I-labeled the descending aorta, which is then tion of Renal Plasma Flow Mab or correspondingfragments. corrected for partial volume effect and Ratios comparing radioactivity con Subcutaneous administration of a the difference in counts between single dose of [‘311]iodohippuratewas centration in different tissues with that plasma and whole blood . . . . Page1432 of bone marrowwere calculated. used for the determination of renal Page 1414 plasma flow in 20 subjects during diuresis. Slow release of tracer per Effect of Bicarbonate on Stabifity of mifted serial clearance measurements the Gallium-Transferrin Complex Clinicopathologic Conferences: over 5 hr, which were then compared The Role of Cimetidine-Enhanced Studiesof the stabilityof the gallium to standard,constantinfusion, and Thchnetium-99in-P@rtechnetate transferrin complex in humans were PAHclearancemeasurements. Imaging for Visualizing Meckel's done using ultrafiltration and dialysis. Page 1452 Diverticulum Page1422 Page 1439 Continuing Education: Endocrine Imaging in the Management of Chronic Prosthetic Vascular Graft Quantitative SPECT for Goiter and Thyroid Nodules: Part I Infection with Technetium-99m- Indium-lU-labeled Antibodies Page 1456

8A The Journalof NuclearMedicine•Vol.32 •No. 7 •July1991