Feasibility Study on a Prototype of Vestibular Implant Using MEMS Gyroscopes

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1526-1531

  Shkel, Andrei M ^a   Liu, Jiayin ^a   Ikei, Chris ^b   Zeng, Fan Gang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Inertial MEMS applications; MEMS gyroscope; Vestibular prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; GYROSCOPES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MICROMACHINING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEUROLOGY; PRODUCT DESIGN;

INERTIAL MEMS APPLICATIONS; MEMS GYROSCOPES; VESTIBULAR PROSTHESIS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 1542301062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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