Technical principles and applications of multislice CT

Protocols for Multislice CT

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-23

  Flohr, Thomas ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

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EID: 84889824348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27273-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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