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Seeing how we hear

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High-resolution X-ray computed tomography reveals the three-dimensional structure of microscopic biological tissue and has great clinical potential if the X-ray dose can be reduced (pages 933–935).

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  1. Advanced Research Laboratory Hitachi, Ltd., Hatoyama Saitama, 350-03, Japan

    Atsushi Momose

  2. Institute of Clinical Medicine University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305, Japan

    Tohoru Takeda

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