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Clinical practice in treating head and neck cancers (HNC) makes use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT, but other tracers are under investigation and may provide additional clinically useful information [1].
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Welsh, L., Newbold, K. (2017). Head and Neck Cancers. In: Chua, S. (eds) PET/CT in Radiotherapy Planning . Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54744-2_9
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