An instrument that simultaneously measures spatiotemporal gait parameters and ground reaction forces of locomoting rats

2008 Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 45-49

  Tasch, U ^a   Moubarak, P ^a   Tang, W ^a   Zhu, L ^a   Lovering, R M ^b   Roche, J ^b   Bloch, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b School of Medicine

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOR PLATES; FLOOR VIBRATIONS; GAIT PARAMETERS; GROUND FORCES; GROUND REACTION FORCES; LOAD CELLS; RAT MODEL; SINGLE-AXIS; STRIDE LENGTH; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

ERRORS; FLOORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

RATS;

EID: 70349095944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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