涩里番

Force-Displacement Transducer

force displacement traducer

Height: 5聽cm聽
Width: 19聽cm聽
Depth: 9聽cm聽
Material:聽Metal, wood聽
Date: c1980s聽


Dr. Richard Fraser, Director of the Maude Abbott Medical Museum, provides a brief description of the function and/or use of the equipment.

This聽transducer聽converts a force or a聽displacement into a voltage that can be recorded for later analysis.聽聽It was used聽at 涩里番聽in an聽undergraduate聽physiology lab course exercise on intestinal smooth muscle run by聽Dr. Peter Weldon in the 1980s.聽聽

Illustration of transducer

Montgomery et al., 2016:聽 Autonomic modification of intestinal smooth muscle contractility.聽Adv. Physio. Educ. 40:104-109, 2016.聽

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