A sensor to measure hardness of human tissue

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 388-391

  Moromugi, Shunji ^a   Kumano, Shinichi ^a   Ueda, Mitsuaki ^a   Ishimatsu, Takakazu ^a   Feng, Maria Q ^b   Tanaka, Takayuki ^c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; HARDNESS; MEASUREMENTS; MECHANISMS; MUSCLE; STANDARDS; SURGERY; TARGETS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

A-STABLE; CONTINUOUS-TIME; HARDNESS DATA; HARDNESS MEASUREMENTS; HUMAN MUSCLES; HUMAN TISSUES; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; PRESSING FORCE; SENSING MECHANISMS; SOFT MATERIALS; SOFT TISSUES;

SENSORS;

EID: 50149091573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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