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Koopman, D., Jager, P.L. & van Dalen, J.A. Small-voxel reconstructions significantly influence SUVs in PET imaging. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 46, 1751–1752 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04301-y
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