Personalised mechatronic valve time-schedule optimiser for hydrocephalus shunt

2011 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 359-362

  Al Zubi, Nayel ^a   Al Nuaimy, Waleed ^a   Al Hadidi, Mohammad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; CURRENT DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; DYNAMICS MODELS; HYDROCEPHALUS SHUNTS; PRESSURE DEPENDENT; SHUNT VALVES; TIME SCHEDULES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; MECHATRONICS; OPTIMIZATION;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

EID: 79957884912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MECBME.2011.5752140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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