Measurements of pressure and sinking depth for mattress selection

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1320-1324

  Tanimoto, Yoshio ^a   Takechi, Hirosuke ^a   Tokuhiro, Akihiro ^a   Takechi, Hideo ^a   Yamamoto, Hideki ^b  

^a Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mattress; Pressure distribution; Pressure measurement; Pressure sore; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CAMERA LENSES; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; HOSPITAL BEDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SENSORS;

MATTRESS; PRESSURE SORE; SINKING DEPTH; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0141885181     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.816851     Document Type: Article

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