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A Rapid and Chemical-free Hemoglobin Assay with Photothermal Angular Light Scattering
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Evaluation of the Radiometer 'ABL4' pH/blood gas/K/Hb analyser
B Beneteau-Burnat1, M Vaubourdolle, M Kebede
1Laboratoire de Biochimie A Hôpital Saint Antoine 184, rue du Fg Saint Antoine Paris Cedex 12 75571 France.
The Journal of Automatic Chemistry
|January 1, 1989
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