Influence of the volume and density functions within geometric models for estimating trunk inertial parameters

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-31

  Wicke, Jason ^a   Dumas, Genevieve A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Kinematics; Modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MODELS;

BODY SEGMENT PARAMETERS; DENSITY VALUE; GEOMETRIC METHOD; GEOMETRIC MODELS; INERTIAL PARAMETERS; VOLUME FUNCTIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; TRUNK; VOLUME FUNCTION;

EID: 76149146436     PISSN: 10658483     EISSN: 15432688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jab.26.1.26     Document Type: Article

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