ELLIPTICAL ZONE BODY SEGMENT MODELING SOFTWARE: DIGITISING, MODELING AND BODY SEGMENT PARAMETER CALCULATION

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to introduce biomechanists to the 'eZone' software program as an efficient and readily accessible means of obtaining body segment parameter (BSP) data by the elliptical zone method. eZone is a MATLAB based program that eliminates the need for digitizing tables and thereby offers the possibility that the elliptical zone method could be used widely to maximize the accuracy of derived kinematics and kinetics. Preliminary results indicate that the product is 'user friendly'. However, the accuracy and reliability of the eZone program in particular and the elliptical zone method in general need to be established relative to other methods.