Portable gage for pressure ulcer detection

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5997-6000

  Wang, Qi ^a   Kong, Linghua ^b   Sprigle, Stephen ^b   Hayward, Vincent ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SKIN; TISSUE;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TISSUE INJURY; ULCER DETECTION;

GAGES;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECUBITUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; NURSING HOME; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCOMPUTERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSING HOMES; PRESSURE ULCER; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34047175332     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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