TY - GEN
T1 - Develop a circumference measurement device for patient with upper limb lymphedema
AU - Chang, Tsai Wei
AU - Chen, Chien Hsu
AU - Hoe, Zheng Yu
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The lymphedema often happens after breast cancer therapy and brings patients great discomfort in their daily life. Therefore, measuring, tracking, and recording becomes a serious clinical issue, but there are still no standard definition and measuring method for lymphedema. The water displacement and circumference tape measurement are mostly used to date. But there are some disadvantages of these methods and influence the difficulty and the accuracy. Thus, the device would be developed according to the conditions relative to disadvantages of these two existing methods. To achieve the conditions, the rotary encoder and grating has been rearranged and tested to develop a new measuring method. The multiple encoder data will be developed and computed as further study in the future.
AB - The lymphedema often happens after breast cancer therapy and brings patients great discomfort in their daily life. Therefore, measuring, tracking, and recording becomes a serious clinical issue, but there are still no standard definition and measuring method for lymphedema. The water displacement and circumference tape measurement are mostly used to date. But there are some disadvantages of these methods and influence the difficulty and the accuracy. Thus, the device would be developed according to the conditions relative to disadvantages of these two existing methods. To achieve the conditions, the rotary encoder and grating has been rearranged and tested to develop a new measuring method. The multiple encoder data will be developed and computed as further study in the future.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992743439
SN - 9783319416939
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 439
EP - 446
BT - Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors - Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors
A2 - Goonetilleke, Ravindra
A2 - Karwowski, Waldemar
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, AHFE 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
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