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Evaluating the clinical utility of diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals is a complicated process, considering — among other things — adverse reactions, radiation dose, stability in vitro and in vivo, drug interaction, pharmacokinetics, costs, acceptability and clinical efficacy. The latter point is the main subject of this paper, which aims at defining a logic structure for clinical evaluation.
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Dige-Petersen, H. (1984). Evaluation of Clinical Information. In: Kristensen, K., Nørbygaard, E. (eds) Safety and efficacy of radiopharmaceuticals. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6753-3_13
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