In plane T2 mapping and diffusion tensor imaging of lumbar nerve roots using a reduced-FOV acquisition
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Dimitrios C Karampinos, Gerd Melkus, Timothy M Shepherd, Suchandrima Banerjee, Emine U Saritas, Ajit Shankaranarayanan, Chistopher P Hess, Thomas M Link, William P Dillon, and Sharmila Majumdar Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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تاریخ انتشار 2011