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Yasuhiro Homma1, Manon Bas Dit Nugues2, Arnaud Dubory3
1CNRS, Laboratoire Modelisation et Simulation Multi Echelle, MSME UMR 8208 CNRS, 61 Avenue du General de Gaulle, 94010 Creteil, France; Department of Medicine for Orthopaedics and Motor Organ, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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