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Mashsa Abassi, “Empirical Assessment of Ultrasound Model Based Reconstructive Elasticity Imaging”, Journal of Biomedical and Sustainable Healthcare Applications, vol.2, no.2, pp. 113-123, July 2022. doi: 10.53759/0088/JBSHA202202013.
