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O White1, M Penta, J-L Thonnard

  • 1Unité de Réadaptation et de médecine physique, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium. olivier.white@uclouvain.be

Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology
|December 17, 2008
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