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International Journal of Molecular Imaging
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 165080, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/165080
Review Article
A Rationale for the Use of F18-FDG PET/CT in Fever and Inflammation of Unknown Origin
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical Center Leeuwarden, 8901 BR Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Received 6 October 2012; Revised 2 November 2012; Accepted 5 November 2012
Academic Editor: Laszlo Galuska
Copyright © 2012 H. Balink et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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