Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 41-47 , January 2008

Design and construction of a closed loop phantom for skin-contact thermography

Received 9 August 2006 ,Revised 2 January 2007 ,Accepted 5 January 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.01.001

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 41-47 , January 2008

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