Instrumentation for assessment of tremor, skin vibrations, and cardiovascular variables in MIR space missions

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...

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Published inIEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 328 - 333
Main Authors Gallasch, E., Rafolt, D., Moser, M., Hindinger, J., Eder, H., Wiesspeiner, G., Kenner, T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.03.1996
Subjects
Biomedical measurements
Biosensors
Cardiology
Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
Electronics - instrumentation
Equipment Design
Humans
Instruments
Mechanical sensors
Microcomputers
Monitoring, Physiologic - instrumentation
Russia
Sensor systems
Skin
Skin Physiological Phenomena
Space Flight - instrumentation
Space life sciences
Space missions
Space stations
Tremor - physiopathology
Vibrations
Russia
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0018-9294
1558-2531
DOI:10.1109/10.486291