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Fu, F., Li, X., Wu, Y. et al. Total-body dynamic PET/CT of micro-metastatic lymph node in a patient with lung cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 48, 1678–1679 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-05121-1
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