Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 8 , Pages 914-920 , October 2010

Fluid transfer as a mechanism leading to endotension

  • A. Gebert de Uhlenbrock

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    • Biomechanics Section, TUHH Hamburg University of Technology, Denickestrasse 15, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany
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  • C. Wintzer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular & Visceral Surgery, General Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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  • H. Imig

      Affiliations

    • German Society for Endovascular & Vascular Surgery, Berlin, Germany
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  • M.M. Morlock

      Affiliations

    • Biomechanics Section, TUHH Hamburg University of Technology, Denickestrasse 15, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany

Received 28 May 2009 ,Revised 15 April 2010 ,Accepted 27 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.06.009

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 8 , Pages 914-920 , October 2010

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