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Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Normal Pediatric Spinal Cord Using an Inner Field of View Echo-Planar Imaging Sequence
  
    	
N. Barakat, F.B. Mohamed, L.N. Hunter, P. Shah, S.H. Faro, A.F. Samdani, J. Finsterbusch, R. Betz, J. Gaughan and M.J. Mulcahey

  
    	
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