A redundant accelerometric cluster for the measurement of translational and angular acceleration and angular velocity of the head

Journal of Medical Devices, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-22

  Cappa, Paolo ^a,b   Patanè, Fabrizio ^a,b   Rossi, Stefano ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETERS; ANGULAR VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOW PASS FILTERS; TRANSDUCERS;

HEAD; REDUNDANT ACCELEROMETRIC CLUSTER; TRANSLATIONAL COMPONENT;

BIOMECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; FOAM; HEAD MOVEMENT; HELMET; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY;

EID: 42549142269     PISSN: 19326181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2355685     Document Type: Article

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