Force plate for measuring small animal forces by digital speckle pattern interferometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6616, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Arroyo, M Pilar ^a   Bea, José Antonio ^b   Andrés, Nieves ^a   Osta, Rosario ^c   Doblaré, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c Facultad de Veterinaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digital speckle pattern interferometry; Force measurements; Muscle strength; Small animals

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; MUSCLE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RATS;

DIGITAL SPECKLE PATTERN INTERFEROMETRY; FORCE MEASUREMENTS; GROUND REACTIONS; MUSCLE STRENGTH;

FORCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 36248956670     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.732044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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