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This work was supported by Bei**g Hospitals Authority Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding Support (ZYLX202105).

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Min-Fu Yang is the recipient of the grant from Bei**g Hospitals Authority Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding Support (ZYLX202105). The rest of the authors declared no conflict of interest.

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**, XY., Wang, L., Liu, A. et al. Myocardial fibroblast activation imaging in light chain cardiac amyloidosis. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 30, 1690–1692 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-022-02963-0

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