Sonomyography: Monitoring morphological changes of forearm muscles in actions with the feasibility for the control of powered prosthesis

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 405-415

  Zheng, Y P ^a   Chan, M M F ^a   Shi, J ^a   Chen, X ^a   Huang, Q H ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electromyography (EMG); Motion analysis; Muscle; Prosthesis control; Sonomyography (SMG); Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL PROSTHESES; MOTION ANALYSIS; ON-OFF CONTROLS; SONOMYOGRAPHY (SMG); TERMINAL DEVICES;

CORRELATION METHODS; MOTION ESTIMATION; MUSCLE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PROSTHETICS; ULTRASONICS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISABLED PERSON; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SONOMYOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; WRIST;

AMPUTEES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEEDBACK; FOREARM; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33646069381     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.07.012     Document Type: Article

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