OrthoJacket: An active FES-hybrid orthosis for the paralysed upper extremity

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-44

  Schill, Oliver ^a   Wiegand, Roland ^a   Schmitz, Bastian ^a   Matthies, Richard ^a   Eck, Ute ^b   Pylatiuk, Christian ^a   Reischl, Markus ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^a   Rupp, Rüdiger ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

active orthosis; exoskeleton; fluidic actuators; functional electrical stimulation; neuroprosthesis; tetraplegia

Indexed keywords

EXOSKELETON; FLUIDIC ACTUATORS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NEURO-PROSTHESIS; ORTHOSIS; TETRAPLEGIA;

ACTUATORS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEUROSURGERY; RESTORATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

MUSCLE;

ARM; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; ORTHOTICS; PARALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CLOTHING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PARALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 79951571341     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2010.056     Document Type: Article

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