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  1. Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Via Roma, 67, 56123, Pisa, Italy

    Elena Lazzeri & Paola A. Erba

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rambam Health, Haifa, Israel

    Ora Israel

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Riddhika Chakravartty

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bellvitge-IDIBELL University Hospital, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

    Josè Martin Comin

  5. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

    Francois Jamar

  6. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France

    Francois Rouzet

  7. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Andor W. J. M. Glaudemans

  8. Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Alberto Signore

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Lazzeri, E., Israel, O., Erba, P.A. et al. Comment on Aksoy et al.: FDG and FDG-labelled leucocyte PET/CT in the imaging of prosthetic joint infection. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 41, 1811–1812 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-014-2777-8

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