Tests of wireless wearable sensor system in joint angle measurement of lower limbs

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5469-5472

  Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Saito, Hiroki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MOTION; ANKLE JOINTS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; INERTIAL SENSOR; JOINT ANGLE; KNEE-JOINT ANGLE; LOWER LIMB; MEAN VALUES; MOTION MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; WEARABLE SENSOR SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MEASUREMENTS; SENSORS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ACCELERATION; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTHROMETRY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; GAIT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LEG; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEMETRY; WALKING; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY;

ACCELERATION; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMANS; JOINTS; LEG; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TELEMETRY; WALKING;

EID: 84862270881     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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