Dr. Eline Verwer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Gordon Center, received the Alavi-Mandell Publication Award of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for the following paper:
Parametric Methods for Quantification of 18F-FAZA Kinetics in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients.
J Nucl Med. 2014;55:1772–1777.
Eline E. Verwer, Idris Bahce, Floris H.P. van Velden, Maqsood Yaqub, Robert C. Schuit, Albert D. Windhorst, Pieter Raijmakers, Otto S. Hoekstra, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, Egbert F. Smit, and Ronald Boellaard
Abstract:
(18)F-fluoroazomycinarabinoside ((18)F-FAZA) is a hypoxia-specific PET tracer. In future clinical applications of hypoxia imaging, such as early response monitoring or radiation therapy dose painting, accurate quantification of tracer uptake at the voxel level will be required. The aim of the present study was to assess the validity of parametric methods for the quantification of (18)F-FAZA studies.