A Note on the Time Constant in Low-Pass Filtering of Rectified Surface EMG

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-27, Issue 5, 1980, Pages 274-278

  Miyano, Hisao ^a   Masuda, Tadashi ^a   Sadoyama, Tsugutake ^a  

^a Indust Products Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - CORRELATION METHODS;

LOW-PASS FILTERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN CELL; LOW PASS FILTER; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; STATIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TIME CONSTANT;

COMPUTERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0019231942     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1980.326634     Document Type: Article

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