A portable, real-time, clinical gait velocity analysis system

IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 310-321

  Weir, R F ^a   Childress, D S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulation; Gait; Gait analysis; Gait pathology; Locomotion; Ultrasound; Ultrasound distance measurement; Ultrasound ranging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRANSPONDERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

DIRECT ULTRASOUND RANGING SYSTEM (DURS); GAIT PATHOLOGY; INFRARED EMITTERS;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GAIT; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY; WALKING;

EID: 0031442468     PISSN: 10636528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/86.650284     Document Type: Article

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