Objective skill analysis and assessment in neurosurgery by using an ultra-miniaturized inertial measurement unit WB-3 - Pilot tests

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2320-2323

  Lin, Zhuohua ^a   Zecca, Massimiliano ^a   Sessa, Salvatore ^a   Sasaki, Tomoya ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^b   Itoh, Kazuko ^a   Iseki, Hiroshi ^b   Takanishi, Atsuo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; ITS APPLICATIONS; PICK AND PLACE; PILOT TESTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SKILL ASSESSMENT; TRAINING METHODS;

NEUROSURGERY;

EID: 77951000656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5335116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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