A Rapid and Cost-Effective Device for Testing Minimal Erythema Dose

Leah Conant1, Kristen M. Beck2, Wilson Liao2
1UCSF School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
2Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

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