Title
Analysis of Tremor During Grasp Using Ultrasound Imaging: Preliminary Study
Abstract
This paper investigates the use of ultrasound imaging to characterize tremor during a grasping motion. Ultrasound images were collected from three human participants including an able-bodied participant, a patient with Parkinson’s disease, and a patient with essential tremor. Each human participant was instructed to grasp and hold objects with three different masses in a vertical upright position with an ultrasound probe strapped to their forearm while seated. The images were processed using an ultrasound speckle tracking algorithm to measure muscle strain during the grasping and holding motion. Analysis of the computed strain values showed marked differences in the strain peaks and frequencies between able-bodied participant and the patients with tremor. The detected frequencies depict how the strain measurement changes during the grasping and holding motion. The frequency for tremor participants fall within accepted frequency ranges for Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor, and thus can be representative of the actual tremor frequency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/BioRob49111.2020.9224446
2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)
DocType
ISSN
ISBN
Conference
2155-1782
978-1-7281-5907-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ashwin Iyer100.34
Zhiyu Sheng202.37
Qiang Zhang300.34
Kang Kim423.48
Nitin Sharma5709.45