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I am grateful to Professor Terry Jones (Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK), Associate Professor Steve Meikle (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia), Dr. Victor Kalff (Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia) and Dr. Paul Roach (Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney) for useful comments and critical appraisal of this communication. I am also grateful to the scientific committee of the 2002 Belgian Nuclear Medicine Society Annual Scientific Meeting Committee for posing the original question to me ("What will Nuclear Medicine be like in the next decade?"), which stimulated much of the debate contained here.

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Bailey, D.L. Is PET the future of Nuclear Medicine?. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 30, 1047–1049 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-003-1242-x

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