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There certainly should not be two articles on gallium scan and gallium imaging, since they are the same thing. The question is which term is more common. Google gives 5 times more hits for gallium scan, which is the older term. Though gallium imaging is emerging as the newer term of choice, it hasn't yet taken over. Since his is not a hot topic, unless somebody disagrees later (feel free to revert if you have strong feelings, or discuss here with reasons), I'm going to be WP:BOLD and move the cats and other new stuff from the gallium imaging article, and redirect gallium imaging here, to gallium scan. When the newer term gains such acceptance as to be the more common google hit, the titles and redirect can be reversed. S B H arris 02:53, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]