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Rohin Moza1, J Michael Dimaio, Jose Melendez

  • 1University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. rohin.moza@utsouthwestern.edu

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine : the Quarterly Magazine of the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
|July 28, 2010
PubMed

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wound healingtissue necrosisoptical diagnosticspressure sores

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