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World J Radiol. Jul 28, 2014; 6(7): 480-485
Published online Jul 28, 2014. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v6.i7.480
Published online Jul 28, 2014. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v6.i7.480
Clinical use of bone-targeting radiopharmaceuticals with focus on alpha-emitters
Hinrich A Wieder, Department of Radiology, Zentrum für Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin, 41515 Grevenbroich, Germany
Hinrich A Wieder, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany
Michael Lassmann, Ken Herrmann, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
Martin S Allen-Auerbach, Johannes Czernin, Ahmanson Translational Imaging Division, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
Author contributions: Wieder HA, Lassmann M, Allen-Auerbach M, Czernin J and Herrmann K contributed to development of outline, and revision and approval of manuscript; Wieder HA, Czernin J and Herrmann K contributed to drafting and editing of manuscript; Lassmann M and Allen-Auerbach M contributed to figures.
Correspondence to: Hinrich A Wieder, MD, Department of Radiology, Zentrum für Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin, Zentrum für Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin, Von-Werth-Straße 5, 41515 Grevenbroich, Germany. h@wieder.de
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Received: November 27, 2013
Revised: March 20, 2014
Accepted: May 16, 2014
Published online: July 28, 2014
Revised: March 20, 2014
Accepted: May 16, 2014
Published online: July 28, 2014
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