Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 88-95 , January 2009

Functional MRI: Evaluation of Chronic Kidney Disease with Perfusion Imaging

Received 10 March 2008 ,Revised 12 June 2008 ,Accepted 10 July 2008.

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1 This work was supported by the the Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.07.002

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