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Original Articles

Derivation of the mesoscopic elasticity tensor of cortical bone from quantitative impedance images at the micron scale

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Pages 147-157 | Received 07 Dec 2006, Accepted 23 Jul 2007, Published online: 22 Feb 2008

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