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Avni, E.F. (2005). Introduction. In: Marchal, G., Vogl, T.J., Heiken, J.P., Rubin, G.D. (eds) Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/88-470-0363-6_1
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