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About the specificity of radiotracers for prostate cancer

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Soussan, M. About the specificity of radiotracers for prostate cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 44, 2142–2143 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-017-3784-3

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