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Evolving Functional and Advanced Image Analysis Techniques for Adrenal Lesion Characterization

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  1. Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, 820 Harrison Ave, FGH Building, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02118

    Nagaraj Setty Holalkere MD, DNB & Michael A. Blake MRCPI, FFR (RCSI), FRCR

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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Dept. Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Fruit St. 55, Boston, 02114, U.S.A.

    Michael A. Blake

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Dept. Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Fruit St. 55, Boston, 02114, U.S.A.

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Holalkere, N.S., Blake, M.A. (2009). Evolving Functional and Advanced Image Analysis Techniques for Adrenal Lesion Characterization. In: Blake, M., Boland, G. (eds) Adrenal Imaging. Contemporary Medical Imaging. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-560-2_13

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