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(1)Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 43. The Utility of Manganese for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Transient Myocardial Ischemia ROLF ERIKSSON. ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS UPPSALA 2005. ISSN 1651-6206 ISBN 91-554-6266-9 urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5817.

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