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Research Article

Strategies of assessing and quantifying radiation treatment metabolic tumor response using F18 FDG Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Pages 948-955 | Received 28 May 2010, Accepted 20 Jul 2010, Published online: 13 Sep 2010

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