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Which radionuclides will nuclear oncology need tomorrow?

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  1. The name ARRONAX also refers to Professor Aronnax, a character in the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by the famous French writer Jules Verne, who was born in Nantes in 1828.

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Barbet, J., Chatal, JF., Gauché, F. et al. Which radionuclides will nuclear oncology need tomorrow?. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 33, 627–630 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-006-0116-4

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