Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 4-22 , January 2004

Impact of functional genomics and proteomics on radionuclide imaging

  • Uwe Haberkorn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Heidelberg, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Uwe Haberkorn, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, FRG-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
  • ,
  • Annette Altmann

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
  • ,
  • Walter Mier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Heidelberg, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
  • ,
  • Michael Eisenhut

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiochemistry and Radiopharmacology, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

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