Tumour ablation: technical aspects.

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Published in Cancer Imaging on October 02, 2009

Authors

Gerlig Widmann1, Gerd Bodner, Reto Bale

Author Affiliations

1: Department for Microinvasive Therapy, Department of Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.

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