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CT of the Head by Use of Reduced Current and Kilovoltage: Relationship between Image Quality and Dose Reduction
  
    	
Mathias Cohnen, Hubert Fischer, Jürgen Hamacher, Evaldo Lins, Rolf Kötter and Ulrich Mödder

  
    	
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