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Insulin is the cornerstone of therapy in patients with type 1 diabetes. Patients with type 2 diabetes who fail to achieve glycemic control with oral hypoglycemics are also treated with insulin. The clinical aim is to achieve glycemic control within, or close to, the normal physiological levels. Insulin is typically administered via intermittent subcutaneous injection or occasionally via subcutaneous infusion pump.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Monash Medical Center, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Lee-Anne Slater MBBS, MMed, FRANZCR, Stephen L. Stuckey MBBS, MMed, MD, FRANZCR & Ronil V. Chandra MBBS, MMed, FRANZCR

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Correspondence to Ronil V. Chandra MBBS, MMed, FRANZCR .

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Daniel Thomas Ginat

  2. Department of Radiology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

    Juan E. Small

  3. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Pamela Whitney Schaefer

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Slater, LA., Stuckey, S.L., Chandra, R.V. (2015). Insulin. In: Ginat, D., Small, J., Schaefer, P. (eds) Neuroimaging Pharmacopoeia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12715-6_40

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