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Clinical Utility of a Novel Ultrafast T2-Weighted Sequence for Spine Imaging

M.B. Keerthivasan, B. Winegar, J.L. Becker, A. Bilgin, M.I. Altbach and M. Saranathan
American Journal of Neuroradiology August 2018, 39 (8) 1568-1575; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5713
M.B. Keerthivasan
aFrom the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (M.B.K., A.B.)
bMedical Imaging (M.B.K., B.W., J.L.B., M.I.A., M.S.)
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M.B. Keerthivasan, B. Winegar, J.L. Becker, A. Bilgin, M.I. Altbach, M. Saranathan
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American Journal of Neuroradiology Aug 2018, 39 (8) 1568-1575; DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A5713

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