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Volume to Value: Defining the Value of Cardiovascular Imaging

Sangeeta B. Shah, Tripti Gupta, Kyle D. Severinsen, Elizabeth McIlwain and Christopher J. White
Ochsner Journal September 2016, 16 (3) 203-207;

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