Artificial tactile sensing in biomedical engineering
By: Siamak Najarian, Javad Dargahi, Ali Abouei Mehrizi.
Contributors: Dargahi, Javad.; Mehrizi, Ali Abouei.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780071601511
Subjects: Tactile sensors -- Congresses; Robotics in medicine -- Congresses; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- instrumentation; Touch Perception; Biomedical Engineering; Robotics
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The four senses in humans : sight, hearing, smell, and taste; title: The sense of touch; title: Introduction to tactile sensing and tactile sensors; title: Introduction to tactile sensing technologies; title: Strain gauge sensors; title: Piezoelectric sensors; title: Application of tactile sensing in surgery; title: Tactile image information; title: Application and recent developments of tactile sensing in tumor detection; title: Determination of mechanical properties of biological tissues including stiffness and hardness; title: Application of tactile sensing in robotic surgery; title: Haptics application in surgical simulation.