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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Würzburg, Director, Oberdürrbacher Strasse 6, 97080, Würzburg, Germany

    Andreas K. Buck

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Markus Schwaiger

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    Manfred Schwab

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Buck, A.K., Schwaiger, M. (2014). Positron Emission Tomography. In: Schwab, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27841-9_4688-2

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