Healthy aims: Developing new medical implants and diagnostic equipment

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-20

  Hodgins, Diana ^a,h   Bertsch, Arnaud ^b   Post, Nils ^c,i   Frischholz, Manfred ^c   Volckaerts, Bart ^d,j   Spensley, John ^c,k   Wasikiewicz, J M ^e,l   Higgins, Henry ^c,m   Von Stetten, Felix ^f   Kenney, Laurence ^g  

^a European Technology for Business

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Intelligent Medical Implants ^*  (Germany)

^d Campus Micro Technologies ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h ET B   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ IMI   (Germany)

^j ICTC Europe   (Belgium)

^k Finetech Medical   (United Kingdom)

^l QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m Zarlink Semiconductor   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRAIN GAGES;

DIAGNOSTICS SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; UPPER-LIMB MOVEMENT;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

EID: 38349104540     PISSN: 15361268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2008.8     Document Type: Article

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