Colonoscope flexural rigidity measurement

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 475-479

  Wehrmeyer, J A ^a   Barthel, J A ^a   Roth, J P ^a   Saifuddin, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopes; Column buckling; Endoscopes; Flexural rigidity

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EQUIPMENT TESTING; STIFFNESS;

COLONOSCOPES; COLUMN BUCKLING THEORY; FLEXURAL RIGIDITY;

ENDOSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPE; FORCE; RIGIDITY;

COLONOSCOPES; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0032128167     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02523217     Document Type: Article

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