A comparison of vibrotactile thresholds on the finger obtained with ISO type equipment and Japanese equipment

Industrial Health

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 343-352

  Maeda, Setsuo ^a   Morioka, Miyuki ^a   Yonekawa, Yoshiharu ^b   Kanada, Kazuo ^b   Takahashi, Yukio ^b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Finger; Repeatability; Thresholds; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRATION;

DUDLEYA EDULIS;

EID: 0030750085     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.35.343     Document Type: Article

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