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Considerations on bone volume normalization in quantifying skeletal burden in fibrous dysplasia using sodium fluoride PET/CT

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  1. Section of Nuclear Medicine, Dept. of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, the Netherlands

    Wouter van der Bruggen, Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei & Dennis Vriens

  2. Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Slingeland Hospital, Doetinchem, the Netherlands

    Wouter van der Bruggen

  3. Biomedical Photonic Imaging Group, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

    Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei

  4. Center for Bone Quality, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, the Netherlands

    Natasha M. Appelman-Dijkstra

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van der Bruggen, W., de Geus-Oei, LF., Appelman-Dijkstra, N.M. et al. Considerations on bone volume normalization in quantifying skeletal burden in fibrous dysplasia using sodium fluoride PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 47, 1351–1352 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-04730-0

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