A Note on the Noninvasive Estimation of Muscle Fiber Conduction Velocity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-32, Issue 5, 1985, Pages 341-344

  Broman, Holger ^a   Bilotto, G ^b,c   De Luca, C J ^b,c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - CORRELATION METHODS;

DOUBLE DIFFERENTIATION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBER CONDUCTION VELOCITY; MYOELECTRIC SIGNALS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0021890397     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1985.325550     Document Type: Article

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