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- ↑ Who's Reading Your X-Ray? By ANDREW POLLACK, Published: November 16, 2003, New York Times
- ↑ Medical Tests Add Outsourcing Twist, By Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press, centredaily.com on December 6, 2004
- ↑ Clinical Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Abdomen, pp 111, Endoscopy and gastrointestinal radiology By Gregory G. Ginsberg, Michael L. Kochman, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2004
- ↑ Sanjay Saini, MD, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
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