Computational anthropomorphic anatomical models

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1935-1937

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 70450174221     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2032848     Document Type: Editorial

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