Listening Devices Detect Vibrations in Moving Knee (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Listening Devices Detect Vibrations in Moving Knee

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MEMS microphones and piezoelectric strips pick up sounds of a bending and extending knee. Professor Omer Inan is engineering a device to convert knee joint sounds into a signal he hopes medical researchers will be able to use.

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Fitrah Hamid / Georgia Tech

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