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    Floris H. P. van Velden & Ronald Boellaard

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van Velden, F.H.P., Boellaard, R. Reply to: Area under the cumulative SUV-volume histogram is not a viable metric of intratumoral metabolic heterogeneity. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 40, 1469–1470 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-013-2474-z

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