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The measured values of electrical resistance for various tissues cover a fairly wide ranged). Table 1 gives some typical values measured using isolated tissue samples.
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Barber, D.C., Brown, B.H., Freeston, I.L. (1984). Imaging Spatial Distributions of Resistivity Using Applied Potential Tomography — APT. In: Deconinck, F. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6045-9_26
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