Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 7-18 , January 2006

Multiple echo diffusion tensor acquisition technique

Received 9 August 2005 ,Accepted 21 October 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.10.015

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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