In Vivo Fluorine-19 MR angiography in a mouse model
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R. B. van Heeswijk, Y. Pilloud, U. Flögel, J. Schwitter, and M. Stuber Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, VD, Switzerland, Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging (LIFMET), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, Center for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Cardiology Service, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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