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01-02-2016 | Letter to the Editor

The time has come to standardize ¹²³I-MIBG heart-to-mediastinum ratios including planar and SPECT methods

Authors: Kenichi Nakajima, Koichi Okuda, Shinro Matsuo, Denis Agostini

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 2/2016

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Title: The time has come to standardize 123I-MIBG heart-to-mediastinum ratios including planar and SPECT methods
Authors: Kenichi Nakajima
Koichi Okuda
Shinro Matsuo
Denis Agostini
Publication date: 01-02-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-015-3258-4

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