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Letter to the editor concerning “Reproducibility of [18F]FDG PET/CT liver SUV as reference or normalisation factor”

Zwezerijnen et al., Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2023;50:486–493

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London, SE59RS, UK

    Job Livingstone, Marko Berovic & Adrien Michael Peters

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Livingstone, J., Berovic, M. & Peters, A.M. Letter to the editor concerning “Reproducibility of [18F]FDG PET/CT liver SUV as reference or normalisation factor”. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 51, 342–343 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-023-06512-w

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