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    David W Townsend BSc, PhD, PD

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    Thomas Beyer PhD

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia

    Dale L Bailey PhD, ARCP (London), FIPEM, MACPSEM (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor) (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor)

  2. School of Medical Radiation Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Dale L Bailey PhD, ARCP (London), FIPEM, MACPSEM (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor) (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor)

  3. Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Dale L Bailey PhD, ARCP (London), FIPEM, MACPSEM (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor) (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor)

  4. Cancer Imaging and Tracer Development Program, The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA

    David W Townsend BSc, PhD, PD (Director) (Director)

  5. Northern California PET Imaging Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Peter E Valk MB, BS, FRACP

  6. Department of Radiological Sciences, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Clinical PET Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust, London, UK

    Michael N Maisey MD, BSc, FRCP, FRCR (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

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Townsend, D.W., Beyer, T. (2005). Anato-Molecular Imaging: Combining Structure and Function. In: Bailey, D.L., Townsend, D.W., Valk, P.E., Maisey, M.N. (eds) Positron Emission Tomography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-007-9_8

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