MRI evaluation of vessel wall stretch in healthy and diseased aortas
✍ Scribed by Henrik Haraldsson, Michael D Hope…
- Book ID
- 120924322
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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