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Cerebral Blood Oxygenation Measurement Based on Oxygen-dependent Quenching of Phosphorescence
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A stochastic model for the transport of oxygen to brain tissue

D F Bruley, L J Groome, H Bicher

    Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
    |January 1, 1976
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