Fabrication and testing of a medical surgical instrument capable of detecting simulated embedded lumps

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 957-964

  Dargahi, Javad ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^b   Ramezanifard, Reza ^a   Ghomshe, Farhad Tabatabai ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Sensed objects; Softness measurements; Tactile sensing; Tumor detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049140870     PISSN: 15469239     EISSN: 15543641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajassp.2007.957.964     Document Type: Article

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