A low power portable electromagnetic posture monitoring system [for scoliosis treatment]

Author

Bazzarelli, Michael ; Durdle, Nelson ; Lou, Edmond ; Raso, James

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

21-23 May 2001

Firstpage

619

Abstract

A posture monitoring system for the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis using electromagnetic and accelerometer technology is discussed. Distributed processors are used to allow parallel execution of data collection. The system is carried by the patient and provides feedback to allow correction of posture during daily activities

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; computerised monitoring; distributed processing; embedded systems; feedback; low-power electronics; medical computing; microcontrollers; orthopaedics; patient monitoring; portable instruments; accelerometer technology; daily activities; data collection; distributed processors; electromagnetic posture monitoring system; embedded systems; feedback; idiopathic scoliosis treatment; low power portable system; microcontroller; parallel execution; posture correction; Accelerometers; Computer architecture; Defense industry; Electromagnetic measurements; Feedback; Instrumentation and measurement; Medical treatment; Microcontrollers; Patient monitoring; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928892

Filename

928892