Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 9 , Pages 790-797 , September 2008

Modeling the Variability of Shapes of a Human Placenta

  • M. Yampolsky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S2E4
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 416 978 4637; fax: +1 416 978 4107.
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  • C.M. Salafia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine. 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY 10019, United States
    • ,
  • O. Shlakhter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S3G8
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  • D. Haas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY 10019, United States
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  • B. Eucker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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  • J. Thorp

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States

,Accepted 16 June 2008.

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☆ This work was partially supported by NSERC Discovery Grant (M. Yampolsky), by NARSAD Young Investigator Award (C. Salafia), by K23 MidCareer Development Award NIMH K23MH06785 (C. Salafia).

PII: S0143-4004(08)00186-0

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.06.005

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Volume 29, Issue 9 , Pages 790-797 , September 2008

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