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Suboptimal and inadequate quantification: an alarming crisis in medical applications of PET

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  1. Radiation Medicine Centre (BARC), Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay, 400012, India

    Sandip Basu

  2. Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Thomas C. Kwee

  3. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Drew Torigian, Babak Saboury & Abass Alavi

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Basu, S., Kwee, T.C., Torigian, D. et al. Suboptimal and inadequate quantification: an alarming crisis in medical applications of PET. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 38, 1381–1382 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-011-1766-4

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