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Cardiothoracic Multi-Slice CT in the Emergency Department

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Schöpf, U.J. (2007). Cardiothoracic Multi-Slice CT in the Emergency Department. In: Multi-slice and Dual-source CT in Cardiac Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49546-8_21

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