Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 312-323 , May 2010

Real-time subject-specific analyses of dynamic internal tissue loads in the residual limb of transtibial amputees

  • Sigal Portnoy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Judith van Haare

      Affiliations

    • Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Richard P.J. Geers

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Foundation Limburg, Hoensbroek, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Anat Kristal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel
    • ,
  • Itzhak Siev-Ner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel
    • ,
  • Henk A.M. Seelen

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Foundation Limburg, Hoensbroek, The Netherlands
    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Cees W.J. Oomens

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Amit Gefen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Tel.: +972 3 640 8093; fax: +972 3 640 5845.

Received 7 September 2009 ,Revised 20 December 2009 ,Accepted 23 December 2009.

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PII: S1350-4533(09)00267-7

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.12.006

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 312-323 , May 2010

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