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Research Article

Automatic adjustment of chopping-modulated defibrillation pulses to patient transthoracic resistance

V. Krasteva Center of Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
,
A. Cansell Schiller-Medical, Wissembourg, France
&
I. Daskalov Center of Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Pages 11-18 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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