Use of dual Euler angles to quantify the three-dimensional joint motion and its application to the ankle joint

Ning Ying1, Wangdo Kim

  • 1School of Mechanical & Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.

Journal of Biomechanics
|November 26, 2002
PubMed

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