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Nikolaus Nestle1, Bernadeta Walaszek, Markus Nolte

  • 1Institut für Festkörperphysik, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstrasse 6, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany. nikolaus.nestle@physik.tu-dresden.de

Journal of Magnetic Resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997)
|April 15, 2004
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