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Effect of diazepam on the efficacy of dual-phase FDG PET imaging

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  1. Department of Radiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Hongming Zhuang

  2. Division of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Liège, Belgium

    Roland Hustinx

  3. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 110A Donner Bldg, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Abass Alavi

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Zhuang, H., Hustinx, R. & Alavi, A. Effect of diazepam on the efficacy of dual-phase FDG PET imaging. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 33, 228–229 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-005-1957-y

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