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  1. Divisions of Nuclear Medicine and Abdominal Imaging, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Martin J. O’Connell MD (Professor)

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

    Ronald B. Workman Jr. MD (Resident)

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

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

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O’Connell, M.J., Workman, R.B., Coleman, R.E. (2006). PET in Esophageal Cancer. In: Workman, R.B., Coleman, R.E. (eds) PET/CT. Springer, New York, NY . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38335-4_9

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