Toward a highly accurate ambulatory system for clinical gait analysis via UWB radios

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 284-291

  Shaban, Heba A ^a   El Nasr, Mohamad Abou ^a,b   Buehrer, R Michael ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); Gait analysis; Ultra wideband (UWB); Wireless wearable systems

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SYSTEMS; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORK (BAN); BODY AREA NETWORKS; CHANNEL MODEL; GAUSSIAN NOISE; HUMAN LOCOMOTIONS; INTERSENSOR; LOW-COMPLEXITY; ON-BODY; PARKINSONS DISEASE; RANGING ACCURACY; REAL MEASUREMENTS; SYSTEM DESIGN; TRACKING SYSTEM; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TRANSCEIVER; UWB CHANNEL; UWB RADIOS; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAIT ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSCEIVERS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRONICS; GAIT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMEDICINE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRONICS; GAIT; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 77949754535     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2037619     Document Type: Article

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