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Total-body PET/CT or LAFOV PET/CT? Axial field-of-view clinical classification

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Freiburgstr. 18, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Clemens Mingels, Federico Caobelli & Axel Rominger

  2. Department of Radiology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Clemens Mingels, Hande Nalbant & Lorenzo Nardo

  3. Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Abass Alavi & Austin R. Pantel

  4. Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

    Christos Sachpekidis

  5. Medical Imaging Institute, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital & People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, China

    Meiyun Wang

  6. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Hongcheng Shi

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Mingels, C., Caobelli, F., Alavi, A. et al. Total-body PET/CT or LAFOV PET/CT? Axial field-of-view clinical classification. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 51, 951–953 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-023-06534-4

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