The contrast agent enhanced cartilage tomography: diffusion and equilibrium distribution of contrast agent in human articular cartilage
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The contrast agent enhanced cartilage tomography: diffusion and equilibrium distribution of contrast agent in human articular cartilage Tuomo S. Silvast1, Jukka S. Jurvelin1,2, Mikko J. Lammi3, Juha Töyräs4 1Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; 2Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; 3Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; 4Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland [email protected]
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