Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 17-25 , January 2007

Pulse transit time in paediatric respiratory sleep studies

Received 19 August 2005 ,Revised 15 November 2005 ,Accepted 17 January 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.01.006

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