High-resolution human in vivo spectroscopic imaging using echo-time encoding technique.

H W Park; Z H Cho

doi:10.1002/mrm.1910030310

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High-resolution human in vivo spectroscopic imaging using echo-time encoding technique.

H W Park·Z H Cho

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H W Park, Z H Cho. 1986. High-resolution human in vivo spectroscopic imaging using echo-time encoding technique.. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.1910030310

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