A61B 2018/00666
Using a threshold value
Official title: {using a threshold value}
A61B2018/00666 (Using a threshold value) appears on 1,732 US grants and 2,138 published applications in this corpus.
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- Impedance feedback monitor for electrosurgical instrument2,654US 5,558,671 A1996
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