Wu, Wei
Pierce, Larry A.
Zhang, Yuzheng
Pipavath, Sudhakar N. J.
Randolph, Timothy W.
Lastwika, Kristin J.
Lampe, Paul D.
Houghton, A. McGarry
Liu, Haining
Xia, Liming
Kinahan, Paul E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (U01CA148131, U01185097, U01186157, F32 CA200265, P30CA015704)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81471637)
Article History
Received: 28 June 2018
Revised: 1 March 2019
Accepted: 2 April 2019
First Online: 21 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Paul E. Kinahan.
: Paul E. Kinahan received a research grant from GE Healthcare outside of this work, and is the cofounder of PET/X LLC.All other coauthors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: Timothy W. Randolph and Yuzheng Zhang (two coauthors in our paper) have significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: • retrospective• case-control study/diagnostic or prognostic study• multicenter study