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The physics of arteriole blood flow. I. General theory

E A Trowbridge

    Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement : an Official Journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics
    |May 1, 1983
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