Systematic characterisation of silicon-embedded accelerometers for mechanomyography

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 290-295

  Silva, Jorge ^a   Chau, Tom ^a,b   Naumann, Steve ^a,b   Heim, Winfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mechanomyography; Prosthesis control; Soft silicon suction sockets

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; BANDWIDTH; BIOSENSORS; DAMPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MECHANOMYOGRAPHY (MMG);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

SILICON;

ACCELEROMETER; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMBEDDING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; SENSOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUCTION; VIBRATION;

AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MYOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0038179436     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02348433     Document Type: Article

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