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For more details, the reader is referred to the literature. The nuclear imaging physician interprets the images to make a. One example is scintigraphy, where the radiation captured creates twodimensional images. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
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