PET scanning.
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737 Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. Sir–With great interest we read the paper of Ullmark et al. on using positron emission tomography (PET) to assess bone metabolic activity (Ullmark et al. 2009). PE...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.298.6681.1177