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A design principle for vascular beds: the effects of complex blood rheology

Tomás Alarcón1, Helen M Byrne, Philip K Maini

  • 1Department of Computer Science, Bioinformatics Unit, University College, London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. t.alarcon@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Microvascular Research
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