Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 287-297 , May 2010

Inertial Gait Phase Detection for control of a drop foot stimulator: Inertial sensing for gait phase detection

Received 16 January 2009 ,Revised 14 September 2009 ,Accepted 25 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.10.014

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 287-297 , May 2010

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