Cardiac MRI is safe in patients with pacemakers and defibrillators
✍ Scribed by Alex Baher; Santhisri Kodali; Jiaqiong Xu; William A Zoghbi; Miguel Quinones; Miguel Valderrábano; Dipan J Shah
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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