Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tissue Biomechanics & Engineering

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Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering

Series Editors

• W. Mark Saltzman Yale University

• Shu Chien University of California, San Diego

Series Advisors

• William Hendee Medical College of Wisconsin

• Roger Kamm Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Robert Malkin Duke University

• Alison Noble Oxford University

• Bernhard Palsson University of California, San Diego

• Nicholas Peppas University of Texas at Austin

• Michael Sefton University of Toronto

• George Truskey Duke University

• Cheng Zhu Georgia Institute of Technology

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