Research project

A Dickinson - RF/130 - Developing, Testing and Fitting the Next Generation of Prosthetic Limbs

Research groups:

Bioengineering Group
Lead researchers:

Professor Alex Dickinson
Research funder:

Royal Academy of Engineering
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Alex Dickinson

Professor

Connect with Alex

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Bioengineering Group

We apply engineering principles to the fields of biology and healthcare.

Research outputs

Predictive prosthetic socket design: Part 1—population-based evaluation of transtibial prosthetic sockets by FEA-driven surrogate modelling

Joshua Steer, Peter Worsley, Martin Browne & Alexander Dickinson, 2019, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 19(4), 1331-1346

DOI: 10.1007/s10237-019-01195-5

Type: article

Technologies to enhance quality and access to prosthetics & orthotics: the importance of a multidisciplinary, user-centred approach

Alexander Dickinson, Margaret Donovan-Hall, Sisary Kheng, Stefanie Wiegand, Gary Wills, Chantel Ostler, Samedy Srors, Auntouch Tech, Malcolm Granat, Laurence Kenney, Pathik Pathak, Carson Harte, Peter Worsley & Cheryl Metcalf, 2019

DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P0014

Type: report

Characterising the compressive anisotropic properties of analogue bone using optical strain measurement

Alexander Marter, Alexander Dickinson, Fabrice Pierron, Yin Ki (Kiki) Fong & Martin Browne, 2019, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 233(9), 954-960

DOI: 10.1177/0954411919855150

Type: article

Widening access to sustainable prosthetics services: a global challenge

Alexander Dickinson, 2018

Type: conference

Assessing and benchmarking low cost 3D scanners for transtibial prosthetic socket design

Alexander Dickinson, Margaret Donovan-Hall, Samedy Srors, Ky Bou, Auntouch Tech, Joshua Steer, Cheryl Metcalf, Sisary Kheng & Peter Worsley, 2018