Error analysis of a direct current electromagnetic tracking system in digitizing 3-dimensional surface geometries

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 35, Issue , 1999, Pages 23-28

  Milne, Andrew D ^a   Lee, J Michael ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Digitizing; Electromagnetic tracking device; Kinematics; Stylus; Surface geometry

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING DEVICES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMETRY; JOINT FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032957343     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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