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[BT22]

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[DSS+23]

Drisya Dileep, Tabish A Syed, Tyler Fw Sloan, Perundurai S Dhandapany, Kaleem Siddiqi, and Minhajuddin Sirajuddin. Cardiomyocyte orientation recovery at micrometer scale reveals long-axis fiber continuum in heart walls. The EMBO Journal, 42(19):e113288, October 2023. doi:10.15252/embj.2022113288.

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[LPC+12]

Herve Lombaert, Jean-Marc Peyrat, Pierre Croisille, Stanislas Rapacchi, Laurent Fanton, Farida Cheriet, Patrick Clarysse, Isabelle Magnin, Hervé Delingette, and Nicholas Ayache. Human atlas of the cardiac fiber architecture: Study on a healthy population. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 31(7):1436–1447, July 2012. doi:10.1109/TMI.2012.2192743.

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[RDR25]

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[VGO+20]

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