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Assessing Tissue Viability with MR Diffusion and Perfusion Imaging

Pamela W. Schaefer, Yelda Ozsunar, Julian He, Leena M. Hamberg, George J. Hunter, A. Gregory Sorensen, Walter J. Koroshetz and R. Gilberto Gonzalez
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2003, 24 (3) 436-443;
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