Localization of microscale devices in vivo using addressable transmitters operated as magnetic spins

M. Monge, A. Lee-Gosselin, M. G. Shapiro and A. Emami, "Localization of microscale devices in vivo using addressable transmitters operated as magnetic spins," in Nature Biomedical Engineering, vol. 1, pp. 736–744, 2017.

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