1. The rising cost of health care in the United States: Is it making the United States globally noncompetitive?

   • George A. Beller

   Editor’s Page Pages: 481 - 482

2. Intersecting techniques: The evaluation of left ventricular function with cardiac computed tomography and myocardial perfusion imaging

   • Gregory S. Thomas

   Editorial Pages: 483 - 484

3. Detecting the impact of emerging cardiovascular risk factors: The role of positron emission tomography

   • Danilo Neglia
   • Oberdan Parodi

   Editorial Pages: 485 - 490

4. Mental stress, a powerful provocateur of myocardial ischemia: Diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic implications

   • Diwakar Jain

   Editorial Pages: 491 - 493

5. The revolution and evolution of appropriateness in cardiac imaging

   • Robert C. Hendel

   Editorial Point Of View Pages: 494 - 496

6. Comparison of 64-slice cardiac computed tomography with myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for assessment of global and regional myocardial function and infarction in patients with low to intermediate likelihood of coronary artery disease

   • Edward D. Nicol
   • James Stirrup
   • S. Richard Underwood

   Original Articles Pages: 497 - 502

7. Different manifestations of coronary artery disease by stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, coronary calcium scoring, and multislice CT coronary angiography in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

   • Arthur J. H. A. Scholte
   • Joanne D. Schuijf
   • Frans J. T. Wackers

   Original Articles Pages: 503 - 509

8. Cardiovascular risk, obesity, and myocardial blood flow in postmenopausal women

   • Apurva A. Motivala
   • Patricia A. Rose
   • Claire S. Duvernoy

   Original Articles Pages: 510 - 517

9. Variability of myocardial ischemic responses to mental versus exercise or adenosine stress in patients with coronary artery disease

   • Mustafa Hassan
   • Kaki M. York
   • David S. Sheps

   Original Articles Pages: 518 - 525

10. Dobutamine-induced chest pain does not predict ischemic findings on myocardial perfusion imaging

    • John H. Lee
    • Mohammad Abuannadi
    • James H. O’Keefe

    Original Articles Pages: 526 - 529

11. Clinical evaluation of iterative reconstruction (ordered-subset expectation maximization) in dynamic positron emission tomography: Quantitative effects on kinetic modeling with N-13 ammonia in healthy subjects

    • Jens D. Hove
    • Rune Rasmussen
    • Klaus E. Kofoed

    Original Articles Pages: 530 - 534

12. Tc-99m-N-MPO: Novel cationic Tc-99m radiotracer for myocardial perfusion imaging

    • Young-Seung Kim
    • Jianjun Wang
    • Shuang Liu

    Original Articles Pages: 535 - 546

13. Ordered subset expectation maximization and wide beam reconstruction “half-time” gated myocardial perfusion SPECT functional imaging: A comparison to “full-time” filtered backprojection

    • E. Gordon DePuey
    • Ramesh Gadiraju
    • Shuli C. Shwartz

    Original Articles Pages: 547 - 563

14. Acute chest pain imaging in the emergency department with cardiac computed tomography angiography

    • Ricardo C. Cury
    • Gudrun Feutchner
    • Jack A. Ziffer

    Advances In Nonnuclear Imaging Technologies Pages: 564 - 575

15. Molecular imaging of cardiovascular disease using ultrasound

    • Flordeliza S. Villanueva

    From Bench To Imaging Pages: 576 - 586

16. Basic science curriculums in nuclear cardiology and cardiovascular imaging: Evolving and emerging concepts

    • William A. Van Decker
    • Theodore Villafana

    Review Article Pages: 587 - 594

17. Cardiac sarcoidosis: A challenge to measure disease activity

    • Ruth G. M. Keijsers
    • Fred J. Verzijlbergen
    • Jan C. Grutters

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: 595 - 598

18. Coronary artery vasospasm or true transient left ventricular apical ballooning? Differentiation by nuclear imaging

    • Christof Burgdorf
    • Hendrik Bonnemeier
    • Volkhard Kurowski

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: 599 - 603

19. Letter to the editor

    • Goran Koracevic

    Letter Pages: 604 - 604

20. President’s Message: Health Care Reform and the Search for Quality—Beauty or the Beast

    • William A. Van Decker

    Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology ASNC Update Pages: 605 - 606

21. Calendar

    Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology ASNC Update Pages: 606 - 606

22. A statement on ethics from the HEART Group

    Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology ASNC Update Pages: 607 - 608

23. Clinical imaging for prevention: Directed strategies for improved detection of presymptomatic patients with undetected atherosclerosis

    • Leslee J. Shaw
    • Daniel S. Berman
    • William Wijns

    Erratum Pages: 609 - 609

24. Abstracts Of Original Contributions ASNC2008, The Annual Scientific Session Of The American Society Of Nuclear Cardiology September 10–14, 2008

    Abstract Pages: S1 - S42

25. Hepatic cysts detected on Tc-99m sestamibi gated cardiac SPECT images

    • Rajesh Venkataraman
    • Jaekyeong Heo
    • Ami E. Iskandrian

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: e23 - e23

26. Sinus bradycardia during exercise: Unusual manifestation of ischemia in the territory of the left anterior descending artery

    • Rajesh Venkataraman
    • Jaekyeong Heo
    • Ami E. Iskandrian

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: e24 - e25

27. Angioedema after injection of Tc-99m sestamibi tracer during adenosine nuclear stress testing

    • John N. Makaryus
    • Amgad N. Makaryus
    • Joseph A. Diamond

    Nuclear Cardiology Bullet Pages: e26 - e27