Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1406-1414 , December 2008

An iterative reconstruction technique for geometric distortion-corrected segmented echo-planar imaging

Received 5 February 2007 ,Revised 27 March 2008 ,Accepted 22 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.04.008

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1406-1414 , December 2008

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