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N. Aide received a research grant from Siemens for the work described in reference 13. Other authors declare no conflicts of interest related to this submission.

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According to European regulations, French observational studies without any additional therapy or monitoring procedures do not need ethics approval. Nonetheless, approval to collect data for results presented here was obtained from the National Committee for Data Privacy (registration no. 2084622v0).

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Lasnon, C., Enilorac, B. & Aide, N. Reply to: “All that glitters is not gold – new reconstruction methods using Deauville criteria for patient reporting”. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 45, 878–881 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-018-3938-y

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