A61B 5/0037
Performing a preliminary scan
Official title: {Performing a preliminary scan, e.g. a prescan for identifying a region of interest}
A61B5/0037 (Performing a preliminary scan) appears on 461 US grants and 680 published applications in this corpus.
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