• DocumentCode
    3405495
  • Title

    A stand-alone fracture monitoring system

  • Author

    Morales-Ramo, R. ; Sosa, J. ; Montiel-Nelson, J.A. ; Nooshabadi, Saeid ; Zwick, A. ; Nguyen, X.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Siemens Audiologische Tech. GmbH, Erlangen, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7-10 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We present a stand-alone fracture monitoring system based on the measurements of two transducers: a strain gauge and a two-axis accelerometer. The strain gauge measure the stiffness of the fracture, and the accelerometer recognizes the movements executed by the patient. An algorithm to process the measured data implemented in an microcontroller minimizes the storage requirements. Experimental results probe the viability of the system.
  • Keywords
    accelerometers; biomedical measurement; biomedical transducers; microcontrollers; monitoring; strain gauges; microcontroller; stand-alone fracture monitoring system; strain gauge measure; transducer; two-axis accelerometer; Motion measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2011 IEEE 54th International Midwest Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • ISSN
    1548-3746
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-856-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1548-3746
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSCAS.2011.6026472
  • Filename
    6026472