Walking with WALK!

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-48

  Fuhr, Thomas ^a,e   Quintern, Jochen ^b,c   Riener, Robert ^d,e   Schmidt, Günther ^e  

^a IEEE

^b Neurological Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e AUTOMED ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; GAIT; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; STROKE; WALKING; WHEELCHAIR; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LEG; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING;

EID: 38549094613     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2007.911408     Document Type: Article

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