A novel approach to joint flexion/extension angles measurement based on wearable UWB radios

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 300-308

  Qi, Yongbin ^a   Soh, Cheong Boon ^a   Gunawan, Erry ^a   Low, Kay Soon ^a   Maskooki, Arash ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Joint angles; Phase only correlator; Ranging; Rehabilitation engineering; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; RANGE FINDING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; CLINICAL APPLICATION; JOINT ANGLE; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PHASE-ONLY; REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TRANSCEIVER;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; JOINT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; REHABILITATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEMETRY;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMANS; JOINTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REHABILITATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84892394388     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2253487     Document Type: Article

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