1. The human sodium-iodine symporter (NIS) as a key for specific thymic iodine-131 uptake

   • J. Meller
   • W. Becker

   Editorial Pages: 473 - 474

2. Evaluation of [O-methyl-¹¹C]RS-15385-197 as a positron emission tomography radioligand for central α₂-adrenoceptors

   • Susan P. Hume
   • Ella Hirani
   • Victor W. Pike

   Original Article Pages: 475 - 484

3. Iterative reconstruction: an improvement of technetium-99m MIBI SPET for the detection of parathyroid adenomas?

   • Detlef Moka
   • Wolfgang Eschner
   • Harald Schicha

   Original Article Pages: 485 - 489

4. The value of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in patients with medullary thyroid cancer

   • Katja Brandt-Mainz
   • Stefan P. Müller
   • Andreas Bockisch

   Original Article Pages: 490 - 496

5. The role of bone scanning in severe frostbite of the extremities: a retrospective study of 88 cases

   • E. Cauchy
   • E. Chetaille
   • B. Marsigny

   Original Article Pages: 497 - 502

6. Testicular function after radioiodine therapy for thyroid carcinoma

   • Maria Wichers
   • Elisabeth Benz
   • Dietrich Klingmüller

   Original Article Pages: 503 - 507

7. The effect of collateral flow and myocardial viability on the distribution of technetium-99m sestamibi in a closed-chest model of coronary occlusion and reperfusion

   • Panithaya Chareonthaitawee
   • Michael K. O’Connor
   • Timothy F. Christian

   Original Article Pages: 508 - 516

8. Use of ECG-gated single-photon emission tomography to assess the evolution of perfusion after acute myocardial infarction

   • Masahiro Toba
   • Yoshio Ishida
   • Makoto Takamiya

   Original Article Pages: 517 - 523

9. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in infectious bone diseases: results of histologically confirmed cases

   • Thomas Kälicke
   • Alfred Schmitz
   • Frank Grünwald

   Original Article Pages: 524 - 528

10. Change in regional pulmonary perfusion as a result of posture and lung volume assessed using technetium-99m macroaggregated albumin single-photon emission tomography

    • Shigeru Kosuda
    • Hideo Kobayashi
    • Shoichi Kusano

    Original Article Pages: 529 - 535

11. Evaluation of radiotherapeutic response in non-small cell lung cancer patients by technetium-99m MIBT and thallium-201 chloride SPET

    • Yoshihiro Nishiyama
    • Yuka Yamamoto
    • Masatada Tanabe

    Original Article Pages: 536 - 541

12. O-(2-[¹⁸F]Fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine and l-[methyl-¹¹C]methionine uptake in brain tumours: initial results of a comparative study

    • Wolfgang A. Weber
    • Hans-Jürgen Wester
    • Markus Schwaiger

    Original Article Pages: 542 - 549

13. Sequential scintigraphic strategy for the differentiation of brain tumours

    • Peter Matheja
    • Christian Rickert
    • Otmar Schober

    Original Article Pages: 550 - 558

14. Role of ¹²³I-IMP SPET in the early diagnosis of borderline chronic hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

    • Hiroki Ohkuma
    • Masahiko Tanaka
    • Shigeharu Suzuki

    Original Article Pages: 559 - 565

15. Peripheral sympathetic dysfunction in patients with Parkinson’s disease without autonomic failure is heart selective and disease specific

    • Junichi Taki
    • Kenichi Nakajima
    • Norihisa Tonami

    Original Article Pages: 566 - 573

16. Alteration of myocardial metaiodobenzylguanidine uptake after treatment of phaeochromocytoma and neuroblastoma

    • Kazuyoshi Suga
    • Nobuhiko Ogasawara
    • Naofumi Matsunaga

    Original Article Pages: 574 - 582

17. Radiation dose rates from patients undergoing positron emission tomography: implications for technologists and waiting areas

    • N. A. Benatar
    • B. F. Cronin
    • M. J. O’Doherty

    Original Article Pages: 583 - 589

18. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the initial staging of germ cell tumours

    • S. F. Hain
    • M. J. O’Doherty
    • R. A. Huddart

    Short Communication Pages: 590 - 594

19. Scintigraphic differentiation between two forms of primary dysautonomia early after onset of autonomic dysfunction: value of cardiac and pulmonary iodine-123 MIBG uptake

    • Michael J. Reinhardt
    • Freimut D. Jüngling
    • Stefan Braune

    Short Communication Pages: 595 - 600

20. Role of nuclear medicine in the treatment of malignant gliomas: the locoregional radioimmunotherapy approach

    • P. Riva
    • G. Franceschi
    • M. Adamo

    Review article Pages: 601 - 609

21. Thyroid carcinoma: administration of iodine-131 therapy early in the morning, please!

    Pages: 613 - 614

22. Correct unit notation in equations

    Letters to the editor Pages: A611 - A611

23. ¹²³I-MIBG scintigraphy of catecholamine systems: impediments to applications in clinical medicine

    Letters to the editor Pages: B611 - B612