Dr. Petra Siebenhandl

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Report from DRK 2011: First impressions
As part of our wrap-up from the German-Austrian national congress (Deutscher Röntgenkongress, DRK), two first-time attendees present their thoughts from the meeting in Hamburg, which ended on Saturday.
June 6, 2011
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