Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1410-1419 , December 2009

Retrospective correction for T1-weighting bias in T2 values obtained with various spectroscopic spin-echo acquisition schemes

Received 7 July 2008 ,Revised 30 March 2009 ,Accepted 10 May 2009.

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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