Abstract
The absorption by a tissue of some substance, food material, mineral, etc., and its permanent or temporary retention. In imaging this normally refers to the passage of the tracer from plasma into tissue.
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Thie, J.A. (2012). UV. In: Nuclear Medicine Imaging: An Encyclopedic Dictionary. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25035-4_19
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