Steps towards a miniaturized, robust and autonomous measurement device for the long-term monitoring of patient activity: ActiBelt

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 149-155

  Daumer, Martin ^a   Thaler, Kathrin ^a   Kruis, Esther ^a   Feneberg, Wolfgang ^b   Staude, Gerhard ^c   Scholz, Michael ^d  

^a Sylvia Lawry Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research   (Germany)

^b Marianne Strauss Hospital   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^d TRIUM ANALYSIS ONLINE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; ActiBelt; Gait; Step

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GAIT ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ACTIBELT; INTEGRATED HARDWARE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PEDOMETERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOGGING; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; RECUMBENCY; SITTING; STANDING; VALIDATION PROCESS; WALKING; ACCELERATION; AMBULATORY MONITORING; CLOTHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ACCELERATION; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ALGORITHMS; CLOTHING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34247280387     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2007.028     Document Type: Article

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