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[An instantaneous blood pressure measuring system at the wrist based on the volume-compensation method]

Shu-Mei Gao1, Yi-Lin Song, Shinobu Tanaka

  • 1School of Mechanical & Electronic Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin.

Zhongguo Yi Liao Qi Xie Za Zhi = Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation
|January 16, 2010
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