Graphical display of tactile sensing data with application in minimally invasive surgery

Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 151-155

  Dargahi, Javad ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^b   Ramezanifard, Reza ^a  

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

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Sensed objects; Softness measurements; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

COLOR CODING METHOD; SENSED OBJECTS; SOFTNESS MEASUREMENTS; TACTILE SENSING;

COLOR CODES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; SURGERY;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 37649005371     PISSN: 08408688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/CJECE.2007.4413126     Document Type: Article

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