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Letter to the Editor: The theoretical challenges of routinely using [18F]FDG PET/MRI combined with chest HRCT for early cancer detection in asymptomatic patients

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Duarte, P.S. Letter to the Editor: The theoretical challenges of routinely using [18F]FDG PET/MRI combined with chest HRCT for early cancer detection in asymptomatic patients. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 50, 3824–3825 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-023-06376-0

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