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Metadata
Title
Letter to the Editor: It is time for the nuclear medicine community to define a unit for the total lesion glycolysis (TLG) and similar metrics
Authors
Paulo Schiavom Duarte
Marcelo Tatit Sapienza
Publication date
01-07-2021
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 8/2021
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-021-05190-w

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