Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 6 , Pages 462-469 , November 2007

18F-Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography

  • Einat Even-Sapir, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Osteoradioiology Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Einat Even-Sapir, MD, PhD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel.
    • ,
  • Eyal Mishani, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The Cyclotron Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
    • ,
  • Gideon Flusser, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Osteoradioiology Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
    • ,
  • Ur Metser, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Osteoradioiology Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

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doi: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2007.07.002

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 6 , Pages 462-469 , November 2007

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