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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
Published on: December 10, 2014
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Validation of the pullback pressure gradient in resting conditions
Koshiro Sakai1,2,3, Jeroen Sonck1, Takuya Mizukami1,4,5
1Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium.
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