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    Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen

  3. Research Unit of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen

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Alavi, A., Werner, T.J. & Høilund-Carlsen, P.F. Reply to: Clinical brain PET research must embrace multi-centre collaboration and data sharing or risk its demise: emphasis should also be placed on the critical role of image analysis schemes. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 47, 1806–1807 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-04765-3

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