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Cardiac diphosphonate uptake
  1. Walter Noordzij1,
  2. Andor W J M Glaudemans1,
  3. Riemer H J A Slart1,
  4. Bouke P C Hazenberg2
  1. 1Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
  2. 2Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
  1. Correspondence to Walter Noordzij, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, Groningen 9700 RB, The Netherlands; w.noordzij{at}umcg.nl

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2013-305465

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    • Contributors All the authors have contributed equally to this work. The corresponding author is responsible for the overall content of this Image Challenge.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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