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Sidestream versus incident dark field imaging: How to compare two different technologies to study the microcirculation?

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Christian Lehmann & Joel Sardinha

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Surgical Intensive Care Trauma Center, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Ahmed M. Mukhtar

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Lehmann, C., Sardinha, J. & Mukhtar, A.M. Sidestream versus incident dark field imaging: How to compare two different technologies to study the microcirculation?. J Clin Monit Comput 29, 539–540 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-015-9740-5

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