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The Impact of Sex and Vascular Risk Factors on Brain Tissue Changes with Aging: Magnetization Transfer Imaging Results of the Austrian Stroke Prevention Study
  
    	
S. Ropele, C. Enzinger, M. Söllinger, C. Langkammer, M. Wallner-Blazek, R. Schmidt and F. Fazekas

  
    	
American Journal of Neuroradiology August 2010,  31 (7) 1297-1301; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A2042 

  
  
  



  


  
  



			

		

	
	
 	
	  
  

		
		

			

			  

  
      
  
  

    
  


  
  



  
      
  
  

    

  

    

  
      
  
  

    
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