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Response to the letter to the editor: Lassen et al. 3D PET/CT 82Rb PET myocardial blood flow quantification: comparison of half-dose and full-dose protocols

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  1. Department of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Martin Lyngby Lassen, Daniel S. Berman & Piotr Slomka

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Lassen, M.L., Berman, D.S. & Slomka, P. Response to the letter to the editor: Lassen et al. 3D PET/CT 82Rb PET myocardial blood flow quantification: comparison of half-dose and full-dose protocols. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 47, 2731–2732 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-05009-0

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