In vivo estimation of axon diameter in the human spinal cord using 300 mT/m gradients
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Tanguy Duval, Jennifer A. McNab, Kawin Setsompop, Thomas Witzel, Torben Schneider, Susie Yi Huang, Boris Keil, Eric Klawiter, Lawrence L. Wald, and Julien Cohen-Adad Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States, NMR Research Unit, Department of Neuroinflammation, Queen Square MS Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, London, United Kingdom
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