Sodium MR imaging in the study of hepatic encephalopathy
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N. J. Shah, V. Gras, A-M. Oros-Peusquens, E. D. Pracht, S. Romanzetti, G. Kircheis, and D. Häussinger Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4, Medical Imaging Physics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Klinik f. Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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