Design and fabrication of a new tactile probe for measuring the modulus of elasticity of soft tissues

Sensor Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 317-323

  Roham, Hamid ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Dargahi, Javad ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Histology; Medical equipment; Robotics; Tactile sensors

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROCONTROLLERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TISSUE;

ELASTIROB; TACPLAY; TACTILE DISPLAY; USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE;

PROBES;

EID: 34548699495     PISSN: 02602288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02602280710821452     Document Type: Article

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