Toward a minimally invasive bladder pressure monitoring system: Model bladder for in vitro testing

2010 3rd IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 638-643

  Weaver, Joshua N ^a   Alspaugh, Julia C ^a   Behkam, Bahareh ^b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; BLADDER WALL; CYSTOMETRY; DIAGNOSIS METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; IN-VITRO; LOW CURRENTS; LOW POWER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; PRESSURE DATA; PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM; PRESSURE PROFILES; PRESSURE SENSING; PRESSURE TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSING DEVICES; SENSING SYSTEMS; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY SYSTEM; WHOLE SYSTEMS; WORK FOCUS;

DATA ACQUISITION; PRESSURE SENSORS; ROBOTICS; UROLOGY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 78650483992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2010.5625981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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