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Image-based biomechanics of collagen-based tissue equivalents

Edward A Sander1, Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos, Robert T Tranquillo

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine : the Quarterly Magazine of the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
|May 22, 2009
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