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  1. Royal Princess Hospital Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8ND, UK

    Adrian M.K. Thomas (Consultant Radiologist) (Consultant Radiologist)

  2. Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, B9 5SS, UK

    Arpan K. Banerjee MBBS, FRCP, FRCR (Consultant Radiologist) (Consultant Radiologist)

  3. Deutsches Röntgen-Museum, Schwelmer Straße 41, 42897, Remscheid, Germany

    Uwe Busch (Medical Physicist) (Medical Physicist)

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(2005). Contrast Agents. In: Thomas, A.M., Banerjee, A.K., Busch, U. (eds) Classic Papers in Modern Diagnostic Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26988-6_6

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