Skin Contact Forces Extracted from Human Nerve Signals - A Possible Feedback Signal for FES-Aided Control of Standing

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1320-1325

  Andreasen, Lotte N S ^a   Struijk, Johannes J ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL THEORY; SKIN;

NERVE SIGNALS; SKIN CONTACT FORCES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOT; FORCE; HAND; HEEL; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLANTATION; NERVE STIMULATION; RECORDING; SCALE UP; SKIN; STANDING; SURAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0344063414     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.819848     Document Type: Article

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