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The Substantia Nigra in Parkinson Disease: Proton Density-Weighted Spin-Echo and Fast Short Inversion Time Inversion-Recovery MR Findings

Hirobumi Oikawa, Makoto Sasaki, Yoshiharu Tamakawa, Shigeru Ehara and Koujiro Tohyama
American Journal of Neuroradiology November 2002, 23 (10) 1747-1756;
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