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Nuclear medicine to image applied pathophysiology: evaluation of reserves by emission computerized tomography

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Buell, U., Schicha, H. Nuclear medicine to image applied pathophysiology: evaluation of reserves by emission computerized tomography. Eur J Nucl Med 16, 129–135 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01146850

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