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S Duprey1, K Bruyere, J-P Verriest

  • 1Laboratoire de Biomécanique et de Modélisation Humaine, INRETS - Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, UCBL - Université Claude-Bernard - Lyon 1, Bron Cedex, France. sonia.duprey@inrets.fr

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
|September 14, 2007
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