Abstract：
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IEEE Trans Med Imagingjournal_title
IEEE transactions on medical imagingauthors
Moore SC,Foley Kijewski M,El Fakhri Gdoi
10.1109/TMI.2005.857211subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-10-01 00:00:00pages
1347-56issue
10eissn
0278-0062issn
1558-254Xjournal_volume
24pub_type
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