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Vital signs without handling or animal prep

Lab Animal volume 48, pages 144–145 (2019)Cite this article

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A potential new method for non-invasively monitoring physiological parameters in small animals takes advantage of radio frequency near-field coherent sensing technology

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    Paulin Jirkof

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