From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; and Hubei Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China.
Received for publication June 26, 2018; revision accepted November 13, 2018.
C.Q. and S.Y. contributed equally to the manuscript.
Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: This work was supported by the Key Project of Hubei Province Technical Innovation Special Funding (2017ACA182), the Clinical Research Physician Program of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No.5001530008), and the National Science and Technology Support Program (No. 2015BAI01B09).
None declared to all authors.
Institutional review board statement: This retrospective study of existing patient data and images was approved by the institutional review board of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The requirement for informed consent was waived.
Correspondence to: Xiaoli Lan, MD, PhD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Wuhan Union Hospital, 1277 Jiefang Ave, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430022, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected].
