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We greatly appreciate Dr Jou's interest in our work. His approach is innovative. We are gratified to see that the major determinant of coil softness, the diameter of the primary coil structure, is the same in his analysis and ours. We concur that empiric testing of coil softness remains problematic, but both his calculations and ours appear in line with our own clinical experience.

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