Contemporaneous positron emission tomography and MR imaging at 1.5 T
β Scribed by Keyvan Farahani; Randal Slates; Yiping Shao; Robert Silverman; Simon Cherry
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1053-1807
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