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Based on an invited educational lecture at the 6th Asia and Oceania Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, and the 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto, October 1996.
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Kawakami, K., Mori, Y. Topics in pulmonary nuclear medicine. Ann Nucl Med 11, 67–73 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03164812
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