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Hossein Jadvar1, Abass Alavi, Ayse Mavi

  • 1Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1200 North State Street, GNH 5250, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. jadvar@usc.edu

Radiologic Clinics of North America
|February 8, 2005
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