MR imaging and epilepsy--3T or not 3T? That is the question

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Theodore H Schwartz. Epilepsy Curr. 2006 May-Jun.

. 2006 May-Jun;6(3):70-2.

doi: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2006.00101.x.

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