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Functional MR Imaging Using a Visually Guided Saccade Paradigm for Comparing Activation Patterns in Patients with Probable Alzheimer's Disease and in Cognitively Able Elderly Volunteers
Keith R. Thulborn, Claudine Martin and James T. Voyvodic
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2000, 21 (3) 524-531;
Keith R. Thulborn
aFrom the Department of Radiology, MR Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
Claudine Martin
aFrom the Department of Radiology, MR Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
James T. Voyvodic
aFrom the Department of Radiology, MR Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

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