Concurrent validation of a magnetometer-based step counter in various walking surfaces

Gait and Posture

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-22

  Raffin, Estelle ^a   Bonnet, Stéphane ^b   Giraux, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Ambulatory monitoring; Concurrent validation; Gait; Magnetometer; Step counting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVICES; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOMETER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETOMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855935890     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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