A generative model of realistic brain cells with application to numerical simulation of the diffusion-weighted MR signal

@article{Palombo2018AGM,
  title={A generative model of realistic brain cells with application to numerical simulation of the diffusion-weighted MR signal},
  author={Marco Palombo and Daniel C. Alexander and Hui Zhang},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={2018},
  volume={188},
  pages={391-402}
}
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