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Contrast-Enhanced Transcranial Color-Coded Duplexsonography in Stroke Patients with Limited Bone Windows
Georg Gahn, Johannes Gerber, Susanne Hallmeyer, Gabriele Hahn, Robert H. Ackerman, Heinz Reichmann and Rüdiger von Kummer
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2000, 21 (3) 509-514;
Georg Gahn
aFrom the Departments of Neurology (G.G., S.H., G.H., H.R.) and Neuroradiology (J.G., R.v.K.), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, and the Neurovascular Laboratory (RHA), Radiology Department and Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Johannes Gerber
aFrom the Departments of Neurology (G.G., S.H., G.H., H.R.) and Neuroradiology (J.G., R.v.K.), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, and the Neurovascular Laboratory (RHA), Radiology Department and Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Susanne Hallmeyer
aFrom the Departments of Neurology (G.G., S.H., G.H., H.R.) and Neuroradiology (J.G., R.v.K.), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, and the Neurovascular Laboratory (RHA), Radiology Department and Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Gabriele Hahn
aFrom the Departments of Neurology (G.G., S.H., G.H., H.R.) and Neuroradiology (J.G., R.v.K.), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, and the Neurovascular Laboratory (RHA), Radiology Department and Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Robert H. Ackerman
aFrom the Departments of Neurology (G.G., S.H., G.H., H.R.) and Neuroradiology (J.G., R.v.K.), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, and the Neurovascular Laboratory (RHA), Radiology Department and Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Heinz Reichmann
aFrom the Departments of Neurology (G.G., S.H., G.H., H.R.) and Neuroradiology (J.G., R.v.K.), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, and the Neurovascular Laboratory (RHA), Radiology Department and Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Rüdiger von Kummer
aFrom the Departments of Neurology (G.G., S.H., G.H., H.R.) and Neuroradiology (J.G., R.v.K.), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, and the Neurovascular Laboratory (RHA), Radiology Department and Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

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Contrast-Enhanced Transcranial Color-Coded Duplexsonography in Stroke Patients with Limited Bone Windows
Georg Gahn, Johannes Gerber, Susanne Hallmeyer, Gabriele Hahn, Robert H. Ackerman, Heinz Reichmann, Rüdiger von Kummer
American Journal of Neuroradiology Mar 2000, 21 (3) 509-514;
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