Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 1 , Pages 11-26 , January 2009

Future Diagnostic Agents

  • Filip Gemmel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, KCL, Medical Center, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Filip Gemmel, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, KCL, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Borniastraat 34, 8934 AD Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
  • ,
  • Nicolas Dumarey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Regionaal Ziekenhuis Sint-Maria, Halle, and Université Libre de Bruxelles–Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, Belgium
  • ,
  • Mick Welling, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Preclinical Research & Molecular Imaging, Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Section of Nuclear Medicine, Leiden, The Netherlands

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