The Concept of "Number Needed to Image"

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Affiliations

¹ Affidea Centre de Diagnostic Radiologique de Carouge CDRC Geneva, Switzerland.
² Department of Surgical Sciences, Radiology Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden.
³ Department of Neuroradiology University Hospital Freiburg Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland.

Comment

S Haller. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;38(10):E79-E80.

doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A5276. Epub 2017 Jun 15.

S Haller^{1

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¹ Affidea Centre de Diagnostic Radiologique de Carouge CDRC Geneva, Switzerland.
² Department of Surgical Sciences, Radiology Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden.
³ Department of Neuroradiology University Hospital Freiburg Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland.

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