Comparison of acceleration signals of simulated and real-world backward falls

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 368-373

  Klenk, J ^a,b   Becker, C ^a   Lieken, F ^a,c   Nicolai, S ^a   Maetzler, W ^a,d   Alt, W ^c   Zijlstra, W ^e   Hausdorff, J M ^f   van Lummel, R C ^g   Chiari, L ^h   Lindemann, U ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g McRoberts BV   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acceleration signals; Accidental falls; Elderly; Fall detection; PSP

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION SIGNALS; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ELDERLY; FALL DETECTION; PSP;

ACCELERATION; EXPERIMENTS; STUDENTS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACCELERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952317138     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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