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The Head and Neck

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Magnetic resonance imaging is a well-established diagnostic tool for imaging the brain (Roberts and Mikulis 2007). Apart from providing excellent discrimination between gray and white matter, it is unique among imaging modalities in that the technique of diffusion-weighted imaging allows in vivo evaluation of normal water diffusion (Schaefer 2001, 2005).

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Langner, S. (2014). The Head and Neck. In: Puls, R., Hosten, N. (eds) Whole-body MRI Screening. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55201-4_5

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