Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 33, Issue 4 , Pages 334-337 , October 2003

Gamut: soft tissue uptake of bone radiopharmaceuticals

  • Murat Tuncel

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Murat Tuncel, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hacettepe University, Medical School, 06,100 Sihhiye-Ankara, Turkey
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hacettepe University, Medical School, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Belkis Erbas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hacettepe University, Medical School, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Babak Mahmoudian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hacettepe University, Medical School, Ankara, Turkey

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Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 33, Issue 4 , Pages 334-337 , October 2003

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