A low-power posture measurement system for the treatment of scoliosis

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 108-113

  Lou, Edmond ^a   Durdle, Nelson G ^b   Raso, V James ^a   Hill, Doug L ^a  

^a GLENROSE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data acquistion; Electromagnetic; Instrumentation; Microcontroller; Scoliosis

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

POSTURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; SCOLIOSIS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0033728127     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.836319     Document Type: Article

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