Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Design of ultrasonic motion analysis system for estimating segment's stabilization during dynamic condition

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Design of Ultrasonic Motion Analysis System For Estimating Segment's Stabilization During Dynamic Condition"
by Nima Hemmati and Parisa Rangraz
in EUROCON 2009, 2009, pp. 134 – 137.

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied with insufficient attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Designing and Ultrasonic Motion Analysis System for Estimating Segment's Stabilization During Dynamic Condition"
by H. Saadati, M.D. Abolhassani, A. Forghani
in the 5th World Congress if Biomechanics, 2006, pp. 115 – 121.


While the function of central and peripheral nervous system decreases (caused by aging, vestibular deficiency or stroke), maintaining of body stability get hard. Studies indicate that in a dynamic state such as walking, coordination of axial segments head, thorax, and pelvis is disrupted in pathologic conditions. In recent years goniometry and cinematography have been widely used to measure active or passive range of motion (ROM) in asymptomatic adults. The aim of this investigation is designing and implementing a new method for estimating the level of impairment in stability of segment and the improvement after treatment by measuring quality or quantity of movement among axial segments. Transmitter sensors mounted on body periodically send ultrasonic burst signals and other 3 sensors arranged on a T-shape Mechanical base receive the three dimensional coordinate of these transmitters. After sending 3D coordination data to PC via serial port, a complex visual basic software separately calculates angular dispersion, rate and acceleration for each segment. Also this special software calculates the stabilization parameters among segments such as AI (anchoring index) and cross-correlating between head and trunk coordinates.