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‘Hot spot’ cardiac ischemia imaging with fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography

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MTF and AM drafted the manuscript and were involved in critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual content. KY, SW, RJH, and MSH were involved in critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

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Dr Marissa Ferguson has received research grants from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the MIGA insurance group. There are no other disclosures or conflicts of interest to declare.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

    Marissa T. Ferguson MBBS (Hons), BMedSc

  2. Centre for Molecular Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, 8006, Australia

    Andrew Mallia MD, BSc, Rodney J. Hicks MBBS, MD, FRACP & Michael S. Hofman MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

    Kenneth Yap MBBS, FRACP

  4. Department of Cardiology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

    Samuel Wright MBBS, FRACP

  5. Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Rodney J. Hicks MBBS, MD, FRACP & Michael S. Hofman MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS

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Marissa T. Ferguson and Andrew Mallia—Joint first authors.

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Ferguson, M.T., Mallia, A., Yap, K. et al. ‘Hot spot’ cardiac ischemia imaging with fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 23, 1514–1517 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-015-0390-2

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