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Intraplaque High-Intensity Signal on 3D Time-of-Flight MR Angiography Is Strongly Associated with Symptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
  
    	
A. Gupta, H. Baradaran, H. Kamel, A. Mangla, A. Pandya, V. Fodera, A. Dunning and P.C. Sanelli

  
    	
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2014,  35 (3) 557-561; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A3732 

  
  
  



  


  
  



			

		

	
	
 	
	  
  

		
		

			

			  

  
      
  
  

    
  


  
  



  
      
  
  

    

  

    

  
      
  
  

    
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