Sgard, Brian
Khalifé, Maya
Bouchut, Arthur
Fernandez, Brice
Soret, Marine
Giron, Alain
Zaslavsky, Clara
Delso, Gaspar
Habert, Marie-Odile
Kas, Aurélie
Article History
Received: 22 May 2019
Revised: 28 August 2019
Accepted: 15 October 2019
First Online: 20 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Aurélie Kas, MD, PhD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière C. Foix Hospital, APHP, Paris, France. Phone: 33 1 42 17 62 80. Fax: 33 1 42 17 62 92. Email: aurelie.kas@gmail.com
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies:Maya Khalifé received a research grant from GE Healthcare.Brice Fernandez and Gaspar Delso are GE Healthcare employees. Only non-GE employees had control of inclusion of data and information that might present a conflict of interest for authors who are employees of GE Healthcare. No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.Aurélie Kas received honoria for lectures from GE Healthcare and Piramal.Marie-Odile Habert received honoraria for lectures from Lilly.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Data of this study were extracted from the PET/MR examinations database of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, which was approved by the French authority for the protection of privacy and personal data in clinical research (CNIL, approval no. 2111722). All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: • Retrospective• Experimental• Performed at one institution