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Philip J Santangelo1, Aaron W Lifland, Paul Curt

  • 1Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. philip.santangelo@bme.gatech.edu

Nature Methods
|April 8, 2009
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