Nuclear medicine

Khafagi, Frederick A; Butler, S Patrick

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04260.x

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Through improvements in radiopharmaceuticals and instrumentation, nuclear medicine continues to develop and refine in-vivo approaches for diagnosis (including staging and prognosis) and treatment of disease.

1 Department of Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology, St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane, QLD.
2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, St George's Hospital, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: fkhafagi@bigpond.com

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