Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 845-852 , October 2007

Effect of human trabecular bone composition on its electrical properties

  • J. Sierpowska

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    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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  • M.J. Lammi

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    • Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Anatomy, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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  • M.A. Hakulinen

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    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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  • J.S. Jurvelin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
    • Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1777, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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  • R. Lappalainen

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    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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  • J. Töyräs

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    • Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kuopio University Hospital, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1777, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland

Received 23 March 2006 ,Revised 15 September 2006 ,Accepted 19 September 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.09.007

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 845-852 , October 2007

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