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False-positive stress PET–CT imaging in a patient with interstitial injection

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RdK reports grants, consulting fees, and license revenues from Jubilant DraxImage and UOHI, outside the submitted work. RSB reports grants and honoraria from Lantheus Medical Imaging, grants and honoraria from Jubilant DraxImage, and grants from GE Healthcare, outside the submitted work. RB is a Career Investigator supported but the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and a Tier 1 Research Chair supported by the University of Ottawa. TDR is supported by research grants from GE HealthCare and Advanced Accelerator Applications. GD is supported by a CIHR New Investigator salary support Award.

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, National Cardiac PET Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin St, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4W7, Canada

    Luciana Erthal MD, Fernanda Erthal MD, Rob S. B. Beanlands MD, FRCPC, Terrence D. Ruddy MD, FRCPC, Robert A. deKemp PhD & Girish Dwivedi MD, MRCP (UK), PhD (UK)

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    Luciana Erthal MD, Fernanda Erthal MD, Rob S. B. Beanlands MD, FRCPC, Terrence D. Ruddy MD, FRCPC & Robert A. deKemp PhD

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Erthal, L., Erthal, F., Beanlands, R.S.B. et al. False-positive stress PET–CT imaging in a patient with interstitial injection. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 24, 1447–1450 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-016-0634-9

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