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Clinical fMRI: A Pre-Surgical Test in Patients with Medically Intractable Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Zheng Wang  and
Seyed M. Mirsattari
Zheng Wang
Affiliation:
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Seyed M. Mirsattari
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , May 2012 , pp. 265 - 266
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