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| l | Routinely 360º rotation in 0.5 sec (798 data points) |
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| l | Can go to 0.4
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| l | Using the
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plane. Thus each vowel is 1 x1 x1mm
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SCANNING |
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| FOV (head,
neck, extremity) in which each voxel is |
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| 0.5mm |
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