Is the Selection of Body Segment Inertia Parameters Critical to the Results of Kinematic and Kinetic Analysis of Human Movement?

Anthropological Science

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 371-383

  Yokoi, Takashi ^a   Takahashi, Akihiko ^a   Okada, Hidetaka ^b   Ohyama, Keigo B ^b   Muraoka, Makoto ^b  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomechanical analysis; Body segment parameter selection; Human movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032244354     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.106.371     Document Type: Article

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