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S Lohfeld1, V Barron, P E McHugh

  • 1National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science and Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. stefan.lohfeld@nuigalway.ie

Annals of Biomedical Engineering
|October 22, 2005
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