Mechanical compression for dehydration and optical clearing of skin

Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2008

Volumn , Issue PART B, 2009, Pages 803-804

  Drew, Chris W ^a   Rylander, Christopher G ^a,b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

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