An artificial gastrocnemius for a transtibial prosthesis

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 5034-5037

  Endo, Ken ^a   Swart, Eric ^a   Herr, Hugh ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE;

ACTIVE DEVICES; ANKLE JOINTS; GASTROCNEMIUS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; METABOLIC COST; PILOT STUDIES; TRANS-TIBIAL PROSTHESIS; TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTEES;

PROSTHETICS;

EID: 77951017095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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