A versatile and simple to use biomedical instrumentation for noninvasive examinations of cosmonauts at the Russian MIR space station was developed. It consists of a comfortable sensor jacket to assess signals from the body surface, a precision hand dynamometer to produce muscular and cardiovascular loads, and a small interactive microprocessor unit that controls the examination and stores measurement data. The sensor jacket includes highly sensitive piezo-resistive accelerometers, pulse sensors, an ECG system, and a skin-mountable mechanical vibrator. The functionality of this instrumentation was evaluated during long-term space flights and also proved very useful in laboratory and clinical studies.
Instrumentation for assessment of tremor, skin vibrations, and cardiovascular variables in MIR space missions
Instrumentierung zur Erfassung von Tremor, Hautvibrationen und kardiovaskulären Variablen bei den russischen MIR-Raumflügen
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering ; 43 , 3 ; 328-333
1996
6 Seiten, 8 Quellen
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Englisch
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