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Facility
Our Hand Research Laboratory is located on the 16th floor of the Biomedical Science Tower of the University of Pittsburgh Campus. Our Hand Lab is outfitted with cutting-edge engineering equipment and clinical facilities for hand research.
Engineering equipment Desktop robot (KR 3, KUKA, Augsburg, Germany) Motion analysis system (VICON 460, Oxford Metrics Ltd, Oxford, UK) Two Bertec 6-DOF load cells (Columbus, OH) 3D digitizer (Microscribe G2-X, CNC service, inc., VA) Six electrogoniometers (Biometrics, UK) Four uni-directional force sensors (M208A03, PCB Piezotronics, Inc., NY) Four signal conditioners (M482M66, PCB Piezotronics, Inc., NY) Five six-component force/torque sensors (ATI Industrial Auto, NC) Digital grip dynamometer (Biometrics, Gwent, UK) Digital pinch dynamometer (Biometrics, Gwent, UK) Accelerometer (Entran EGA-25, Fairfield, NJ) Pressures transducer (SPC 450, Miller Instrument, Inc., Houston, TX) Pulling system for force production of multiple fingers Tissue Ultrasound Palpation System (TUPS)
Clinical equipment Eight-channel EMG system (MyoSystem 1200, Noraxon, Scottsdale, AZ) Nerve conduction velocity system (BRV-0100, NeuMed, Pennington, NJ) Muscle stiffness system (Myotonometer, Neurogenic Technologies, Missoula, MT) Grip dynamometer (Fabrication Enterprises, White Plains, NY) Analog wrist dynamometer (Fabrication Enterprises, White Plains, NY) Analog squeeze dynamometer (Fabrication Enterprises, White Plains, NY) Purdue pegboard test (Lafayette Instrument Co., Lafayette, IN)
Data acquisition equipment AT-MIO-16XE-10, A/D board for data acquisition, National Instrument, TX PCI-6031E (MIO-64XE-10), 64-channel A/D board, National Instrument, TX DAQCard-AI-16E-4, A/D card for PCMCIA. National Instrument, TX Four BNC-2090 for signal conditioning and connection Two experimental stations for data collection, device control, and data analyses.
Software LabVIEW (National Instrument, TX) Matlab (MathWorks, Inc. MA) MIMICS (Materialise, Belgium) AutoCAD (Autodesk, San Rafael, CA) Minitab (Minitab, Inc, State College PA ) SPSS (SPSS, Inc. Chicago, IL) Acrobat Professional (Adobe, San Jose, CA) Illustrator (Adobe, San Jose, CA) Photoshop Elements (Adobe, San Jose, CA)
Device manufacturing equipment Milling Machine Variable Speed Drill Press Variable Speed Jigsaw Chop Saw Compound Miter Saw Drill/Driver
Cadaveric facility Storage freezers
Scalpels
Main Lab
Clinical Room
Biomedical Science Tower Hand Research Laboratory is on the 16th floor (E1617 & E1640)
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