Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 35-44 , January 2008

ADC measurements at low and high b values: insight into normal brain structure with clinical DWI

Received 18 January 2007 ,Revised 5 April 2007 ,Accepted 21 April 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.04.004

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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