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Neuroimaging in Pediatric Brain Tumors: Gd-DTPA–enhanced, Hemodynamic, and Diffusion MR Imaging Compared with MR Spectroscopic Imaging

A. Aria Tzika, Maria K. Zarifi, Liliana Goumnerova, Loukas G. Astrakas, David Zurakowski, Tina Young-Poussaint, Douglas C. Anthony, R. Michael Scott and Peter McL. Black
American Journal of Neuroradiology February 2002, 23 (2) 322-333;
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