Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 710-716 , July 2008

An algorithm to allow humerus translation in the indeterminate problem of shoulder abduction

  • Alexandre Terrier

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics, STI–IBME-LBO, Bâtiment AI, Station 15, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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  • Arne Vogel

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Massimiliano Capezzali

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Alain Farron

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Received 23 November 2006 ,Revised 18 June 2007 ,Accepted 24 July 2007.

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PII: S1350-4533(07)00148-8

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.07.011

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 710-716 , July 2008

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