Design of MEMS biomedical pressure sensor for gait analysis

IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics, Proceedings, ICSE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 166-169

  Wahab, Yufridin ^a   Zayegh, Aladin ^a   Begg, Rezaul K ^b   Veljanovski, Ronny ^a  

^a Faculty of Health   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL PRESSURE; DIABETIC ULCERATION; HIGH LINEARITY; INTERFACE PRESSURE; MEMS PRESSURE SENSOR; MEMS TECHNOLOGY; SENSOR DESIGNS; SPORTS APPLICATIONS; WIDE SPECTRUM;

BIOMECHANICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

PRESSURE SENSORS;

EID: 66049098498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMELEC.2008.4770300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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