Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 719-726 , September 2006

A markerless sub-pixel motion estimation technique to reconstruct kinematics and estimate the centre of mass in posturography

Received 15 November 2004 ,Revised 8 October 2005 ,Accepted 17 October 2005.

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