Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1383-1389 , November 2010

Unambiguous identification of superparamagnetic iron oxide particles through quantitative susceptibility mapping of the nonlinear response to magnetic fields

Received 19 May 2010 ,Accepted 11 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.011

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