Title :
A portable bone fracture detector
Author_Institution :
Instrum. Dept., Kurukshetra Univ., India
fDate :
29 Oct-1 Nov 1998
Abstract :
A low cost, battery operated portable handy electronic instrument is developed to evaluate at quicker speed the bone conditions, at site, in a novel way, say in road accidents. The cost of the instrument is less than one per cent than that of a simple conventional X-ray machine
Keywords :
accidents; biomechanics; biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; fracture; orthopaedics; bone conditions evaluation; bone fracture diagnosis; low cost battery operated portable handy electronic instrument; medical instrumentation; portable bone fracture detector; road accidents; Acoustic propagation; Batteries; Bones; Costs; In vitro; Instruments; Joints; Microphones; Stress; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5164-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1998.746925
