Title :
A portable battery operated bone fracture evaluator
Author :
Singh, Kanika ; Singh, V.R.
Author_Institution :
Instrum. Dept., Kurukshetra Univ., India
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 :
bioacoustics; biomedical transducers; bone; fracture; orthopaedics; portable instruments; vibration measurement; bone conditions; bone fracture evaluator; low cost electronic instrument; microphone pick-up sensor; orthopaedics; portable battery operated instrument; sonic instrument; stress wave propagation; vibration measurement; Acoustic propagation; Batteries; Bones; Costs; In vitro; Instruments; Joints; Laboratories; Stress; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4262-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1997.758810
