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Optimizing interventions for preventing uptake in the brown adipose tissue in FDG-PET

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This work was supported in part by the International Union against Cancer (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland, under the ACSBI fellowship.

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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Sandip Basu & Abass Alavi

  2. Radiation Medicine Centre (BARC), Tata Memorial Hospital Annex, Bombay, 400012, India

    Sandip Basu

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Basu, S., Alavi, A. Optimizing interventions for preventing uptake in the brown adipose tissue in FDG-PET. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 35, 1421–1423 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-008-0720-6

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