Muscle Input-Output Model: The Static Dependence of Force on Length, Recruitment, and Firing Period

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1992, Pages 871-874

  Crago, Patrick E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS--MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ISOMETRIC ACTIVE MUSCLE FORCES; MUSCLE INPUT-OUTPUT MODELS; MUSCLE NERVE FIRING PERIOD; NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NEUROPROSTHESIS DESIGN;

HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMAL; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RECRUITMENT (NEUROLOGY); SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026901869     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.148397     Document Type: Article

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