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Applications of Ultrasound Microbubbles in the Spleen

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Contrast Media in Ultrasonography

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  1. Department of Imaging, Imaging Sciences Department, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, 150 Du Cane Road, W12 OH5, London, UK

    Christopher J Harvey MRCP FRCR (Consultant Radiologist), Adrian K.P Lim MRCP FRCR (Consultant Radiologist), Madeleine Lynch MSc (Senior Sonographer), Martin J.K Blomley MD, FRCR (Professor of Radiology) & David O Cosgrove FRCP FRCR (Professor of Clinical Ultrasound)

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Harvey, C.J., Lim, A.K., Lynch, M., Blomley, M.J., Cosgrove, D.O. (2005). Applications of Ultrasound Microbubbles in the Spleen. In: Quaia, E. (eds) Contrast Media in Ultrasonography. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27214-3_14

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