Topographical Map of Innervation Zones Within Single Motor Units Measured with a Grid Surface Electrode

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 623-628

  Masuda, Tadashi ^a   Sadoyama, Tsugutake ^a  

^a Indust Products Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT -- ELECTRODES;

GRID SURFACE ELECTRODE; MAPPING INNERVATION ZONES; SINGLE MOTOR UNITS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION;

EID: 0024058910     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.4595     Document Type: Article

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