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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
  1. Marco Colasurdo1,
  2. Dheeraj Gandhi2
  1. 1 Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  2. 2 Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Neuroradiology and Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Dheeraj Gandhi, Interventional Neuroradiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, MD 21201, USA; dgandhi{at}umm.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnis-2022-019843

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    • Contributors MC and DG conceived the idea. MC drafted the manuscript. DG revised the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests DG reports grants from Microvention, the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, the NIH, and University Calgary/NoNo Therapeutics. MG declares no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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