Director of Study: Prof. Reza Saatchi
Additional Information: Open to all students; self-funded/governments sponsored/industry funded. 
All studies are innovative, aiming to meet a real unmet need in medical engineering. Most are in collaboration with industry and hospitals

Summary

Following a joint replacement or fixation, limb lengthening or trauma fixation with external fixator, it is necessary to examine how well the patient has recovered. In this study, new gait analysis techniques to compare the patient's posture and pattern of movement before and after skeletal surgeries will be developed. The current methods of assessing gait are visual and subjective and this can be highly inaccurate in clinical settings. A gait analysis and interpretation in medical laboratories is very expensive and time consuming to perform. Developed gait analysis techniques will be based on the information obtained from inertia measurement units (IMUs). An IMU contains an accelerometer and a gyroscope. An accelerometer provides accurate information about posture and movements while a gyroscope complements the accelerometer by providing rotational information. 

The work is primarily suited for graduates with a degree or MSc in electronics, physics, mathematics, computing, mechanics or related subjects.

For further information please contact Prof. Reza Saatchi