Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.2018180072

Classifying radiopharmaceuticals by their mechanisms of uptake helps radiologists accurately interpret nuclear medicine images by facilitating an understanding of the physiologic distributions and the potential for creating false negatives and false positives.

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Article History

Received: Mar 11 2018
Revision requested: May 4 2018
Revision received: June 1 2018
Accepted: June 10 2018
Published online: Sept 12 2018
Published in print: Sept 2018