Academic Radiology
Volume 12, Issue 9 , Pages 1158-1166 , September 2005

MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery of Uterine Leiomyomas1

Received 22 December 2004 ,Revised 16 May 2005 ,Accepted 25 May 2005.

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 Supported by Insightec Inc, Haifa, Israel, and National Institutes of Health 5R25 CA0890172, R01 CA046627, and P01 CA67165.

PII: S1076-6332(05)00453-8

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.05.018

Academic Radiology
Volume 12, Issue 9 , Pages 1158-1166 , September 2005

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