A wearable ultrasound multi-transducer array system for abdominal organs monitoring

13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, IEEE BIBE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tsakalakis, Michail ^a   Bourbakis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

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EID: 84894123439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2013.6701592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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