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β-Cell Mass Imaging with DTBZ Positron Emission Tomography: Is it Possible?

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  1. Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Björn A. Blomberg, Babak Saboury & Abass Alavi

  2. University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University School of Medicine, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Björn A. Blomberg

  3. Preclinical PET Platform, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala University, Box 574, SE-751 2, Uppsala, Sweden

    Olof Eriksson

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Blomberg, B.A., Eriksson, O., Saboury, B. et al. β-Cell Mass Imaging with DTBZ Positron Emission Tomography: Is it Possible?. Mol Imaging Biol 15, 1–2 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11307-012-0593-8

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