A Signal-to-Noise Investigation of Nonlinear Electromyographic Processors

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-21, Issue 4, 1974, Pages 298-308

  Kreifeldt, John G ^a   Yao, Sumner ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOISE; DIAGNOSIS; INTEGRATOR; METHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID METHYL PINACOLYL ESTER; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOISE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ELECTRIC FILTERS - NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0016077783     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1974.324317     Document Type: Article

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