Non-contact stiffness imager for medical application

ICIA 2005 - Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Information Acquisition

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 350-355

  Kawahara, Tomohiro ^a   Kaneko, Makoto ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Non contact sensing; Pseudo stiffness pattern; Stiffness imager

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCANNING;

NON-CONTACT SENSING; PSEUDO-STIFFNESS PATTERN; STIFFNESS IMAGERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33947126489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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