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Ahem, Blame the Daughter!

San Francisco, California

TO THE EDITOR:

As an ardent amateur physicist I find the use of terms such as germanium attenuation correction in the Journal discordant (1). After all, this is The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and a nuclide’s mass number is best specified. Germanium in this case is number 68, but alas, the authors seem not even to realize that the attenuation source is actually ⁶⁸Ga, the positron-emitting daughter of ⁶⁸Ge, a ß- emitting nuclide.

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1. Osman MM, Cohade C, Nakamoto Y, Marshall LT, Leal JP, Wahl RL. Clinically significant inaccurate localization of lesions with PET/CT: frequency in 300 patients. J Nucl Med. 2003;44:240–243.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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