Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 229-232 , April 2007

Justifying the number of animals for each experiment

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doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2007.01.005

Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 229-232 , April 2007

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