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The role of imaging in anoxic brain injury and brain death: a review of modalities with an Irish and international perspective

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    T. É. Murray, P. Brennan & S. Looby

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Murray, T., Brennan, P. & Looby, S. The role of imaging in anoxic brain injury and brain death: a review of modalities with an Irish and international perspective. Ir J Med Sci 186, 525–526 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-015-1293-6

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