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PET imaging with FAPI-ligands for non-cirrhotic hepatocellular carcinoma

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The histology slides and the reconstructed PET images are available upon request.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Olga Sergeeva and Wei Cao for PET imaging along with the staff of Nuclear Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, ARC staff of Case Western Reserve University for animal handling, and Maxim Sergeev for providing radiopharmaceuticals for this study.

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This work is supported in part by NIH R01 grants CA204373, CA235152, and CA211762 and DoD grant W81XWH-22–1-0784.

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  1. Radiology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University; Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    Zhenghong Lee

  2. Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    Zheng-Rong Lu

  3. Medical Oncology and Laboratory Animal Shared Resources, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA

    Sandra Sexton

  4. Pathology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, 36617, USA

    Wei Xin

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Lee, Z., Lu, ZR., Sexton, S. et al. PET imaging with FAPI-ligands for non-cirrhotic hepatocellular carcinoma. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 50, 3190–3191 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-023-06324-y

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