Influence of Tissue Inhomogeneities on Noninvasive Muscle Fiber Conduction Velocity Measurements—Investigated by Physical and Numerical Modeling

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 851-860

  Schneider, Jochen ^a   Silny, Jiri ^a   Rau, Günter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - MUSCLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ATX; CONDUCTION VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE FIBER CONDUCTION VELOCITY; TISSUE INHOMOGENEITIES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MUSCLE CELL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES;

EID: 0026228535     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.83605     Document Type: Article

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