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  1. Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    Ronald B. Workman Jr. MD (Resident)

  2. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    R. Edward Coleman MD (Professor and Department of Radiology, Director of Nuclear Medicine)

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  1. Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    Ronald B. Workman Jr. MD (Resident) (Resident)

  2. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    R. Edward Coleman MD (Professor Department of Radiology and Director of Nuclear Medicine) (Professor Department of Radiology and Director of Nuclear Medicine)

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Workman, R.B., Coleman, R.E. (2006). Fundamentals of PET and PET/CT Imaging. In: Workman, R.B., Coleman, R.E. (eds) PET/CT. Springer, New York, NY . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38335-4_1

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