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Automated Method for Tracking Individual Red Blood Cells Within Capillaries to Compute Velocity and Oxygen Saturation

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Pages 507-515 | Received 12 Nov 2004, Accepted 08 Apr 2005, Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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