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The work reported from the author's lab was partially supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), and the Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCW). The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIH-NCI, PCF, or the PCW.

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Stoianovici, D., Vigaru, B., Petrisor, D., Mozer, P. (2009). Robotic Percutaneous Interventions. In: Ukimura, O., Gill, I.S. (eds) Contemporary Interventional Ultrasonography in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-217-3_18

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