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Generation of geometry of closed human head and discretisation for finite element analysis

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Kumaresan, S., Radhakrishnan, S. & Ganesan, N. Generation of geometry of closed human head and discretisation for finite element analysis. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 33, 349–353 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02510513

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