Pressure mapping at orthopaedic joint interfaces with fiber Bragg gratings

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Mohanty, Lipi ^a   Tjin, Swee Chuan ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORTHOPAEDIC JOINT INTERFACES; PRESSURE MAPPING; PROSTHETIC KNEE JOINT; SUBGRATINGS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; JOINT PROSTHESES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 33644556483     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2175499     Document Type: Article

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