Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 961-966 , November 2007

PET/CT evaluation of the physiologic accumulation of 18F-FDG within the gallbladder vesicle

  • Yuji Murata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 3 5813 5311; fax: +81 3 5803 0147.
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  • Hiroshige Watanabe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan
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  • Kazunori Kubota

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan
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  • Kazuma Toda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan
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  • Shin Nakamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dental Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan
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  • Kiyoshi Okouchi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dental Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan
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  • Hitoshi Shibuya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan

Received 21 May 2007 ,Revised 4 July 2007 ,Accepted 10 July 2007.

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PII: S0969-8051(07)00186-2

doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2007.07.006

Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 961-966 , November 2007

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