Fast Simultaneous Acquisition of High-resolution Brain and Cervical Spinal Cord T1w Images to Measure Spinal Cord Atrophy: Methods and Validation
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P. A. Freund, C. Dalton, C. A. Wheeler-Kingshott, J. Glensman, D. Bradbury, A. J. Thompson, and N. Weiskopf Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institue of Neurology, London, United Kingdom, Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institue of Neurology, London, London, United Kingdom, Neuroinflammation, UCL Institue of Neurology, London, United Kingdom, Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institue of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
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