Methodology of electrical impedance tomography-derived measures of regional lung ventilation

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¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24145, Kiel, Germany. inez.frerichs@uksh.de.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24145, Kiel, Germany. tobias.becher@uksh.de.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24145, Kiel, Germany. norbert.weiler@uksh.de.

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Inéz Frerichs et al. Crit Care. 2014.

. 2014 Nov 18;18(6):635.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-014-0635-5.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24145, Kiel, Germany. inez.frerichs@uksh.de.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24145, Kiel, Germany. tobias.becher@uksh.de.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24145, Kiel, Germany. norbert.weiler@uksh.de.

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