Portable preimpact fall detector with inertial sensors

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 178-183

  Wu, Ge ^a   Xue, Shuwan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Biomemetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Fall detection; Inertial sensor; Preimpact

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FRACTURE; HIP PROSTHESES; SENSORS;

FALL DETECTION; INERTIAL SENSORS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 42049095315     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2007.916282     Document Type: Article

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