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  1. Dept. of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

    M. Sawicki, K. Chamier-Ciemińska & A. Walecka

  2. Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Clinical Hospital No1, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

    J. Sołek-Pastuszka & R. Bohatyrewicz

  3. The Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland

    J. Walecki

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M. Sawicki, J. Sołek-Pastuszka, K. Chamier-Ciemińska, A. Walecka, J. Walecki and R. Bohatyrewicz declare that they have no competing interests.

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This reply to a Letter to the Editor refers to the original publication available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00062-017-0631-7. The original letter can be read here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00062-019-00806-z

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Sawicki, M., Sołek-Pastuszka, J., Chamier-Ciemińska, K. et al. Reply to Letter to the Editor “Neuroimaging of Intracranial Perfusion and the Clinical Diagnosis of Brain Death: Setting the Gold Standard in Humans”. Clin Neuroradiol 29, 579–580 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00062-019-00807-y

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