Description and Validation of a Non-Invasive Technique to Measure the Posture of All Hand Segments

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 917-922

  Vergara, Margarita ^a   Sancho Bru, Joaquín L ^a   Pérez González, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; BIOMARKERS; BIOMECHANICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN;

POSTURE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

MARKER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0742271542     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1635403     Document Type: Article

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