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  1. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, White 270-E, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Sanjay Saini & Roy V. Dsouza

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Saini, S., Dsouza, R.V. Optimizing technique for multi-slice CT. Eur Radiol 13 (Suppl 5), 21–24 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-003-2098-y

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