A biomechanical model of Pacinian Corpuscle & Skin

Author

Biswas, Arijit ; Manivannan, M. ; Srinivasan, M.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Mech., IIT Madras, Chennai, India

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes a wide band biomechanical model of Pacinian Corpuscle (PC) embedded in skin and its response against the trapezoidal and sinusoidal stimuli in order to study human vibrotactile (VT) sensitivity near the VT Sensitivity Threshold (VTST) covering few 10s of Hz to few kHz. The overall model includes mechanical signal conditioning in both skin layers and PC lamellae. The developed model describes the mechanical signal processing of the PC lamellar structure in a recursive transfer function and its response is validated against the data from literature.

Keywords

biomechanics; medical signal processing; sensitivity; skin; touch (physiological); transfer functions; human vibrotactile sensitivity threshold; mechanical signal conditioning; mechanical signal processing; pacinian corpuscle lamellar structure; recursive transfer function; sinusoidal stimuli; skin layers; trapezoidal stimuli; wide band biomechanical model; Biological system modeling; Biomechanics; Data models; Educational institutions; Frequency response; Sensitivity; Skin; Pacinian Corpuscle (PC); Skin biomechanical model; Vibrotactile (VT) sensitivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Conference (BSEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Oak Ridge, TN

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2118-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSEC.2013.6618485

Filename

6618485