Computer-aided tissue engineering: Application to the case of anterior cruciate ligament repair

Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-44

  Laurent, C P ^a   Durville, D ^b   Vaquette, C ^c   Rahouadj, R ^a   Ganghoffer, J F ^a  

^a NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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EID: 84907569935     PISSN: 22129391     EISSN: 22129413     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5890-2_1     Document Type: Chapter

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