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Hardy, J. Is amyloid plaque imaging the key to monitoring brain pathology of Alzheimer’s disease in vivo?. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 31, 1539–1540 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-004-1676-9
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