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Reduction of CSF Artifacts on FLAIR Images by Using Adiabatic Inversion Pulses

Joseph V. Hajnal, Angela Oatridge, Amy H. Herlihy and Graeme M. Bydder
American Journal of Neuroradiology February 2001, 22 (2) 317-322;
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