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Standardized Uptake Values of FDG: Body Surface Area Correction is Preferable to Body Weight Correction

Chun K. Kim, Naresh C. Gupta, B. Chandramouli and Abass Alavi
Journal of Nuclear Medicine January 1994, 35 (1) 164-167;
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Standardized Uptake Values of FDG: Body Surface Area Correction is Preferable to Body Weight Correction
Chun K. Kim, Naresh C. Gupta, B. Chandramouli, Abass Alavi
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Standardized Uptake Values of FDG: Body Surface Area Correction is Preferable to Body Weight Correction
Chun K. Kim, Naresh C. Gupta, B. Chandramouli, Abass Alavi
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Jan 1994, 35 (1) 164-167;

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