In vivo sarcomere length measurement and total body irradiation

This thesis contains work carried out in two separate fields of medical physics. Firstly, an instrument is described which enable orthopaedic surgeons to measure the in vivo sarcomere length in muscle fibre. The technique relies on the diffraction of laser light as it passes through the periodic str...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Love, Peter
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Physics 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8116