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Normalization by bone volume instead of body weight or lean body mass may be better for quantifying skeletal burden in fibrous dysplasia using sodium fluoride PET/CT

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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine, São Paulo Cancer Institute (ICESP), Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 251, 4° SS, Cerqueira César, São Paulo, SP, 01246-000, Brazil

    Paulo Schiavom Duarte

  2. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Oncology, Medical School of University of São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Marcelo Tatit Sapienza

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Duarte, P.S., Sapienza, M.T. Normalization by bone volume instead of body weight or lean body mass may be better for quantifying skeletal burden in fibrous dysplasia using sodium fluoride PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 47, 1349–1350 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-04688-z

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