Surface mechanomyogram reflects muscle fibres twitches summation

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 475-481

  Orizio, Claudio ^b   Liberati, Diego ^c   Locatelli, Cecilia ^c   De Grandis, Domenico ^a   Veicsteinas, Arsenio ^c  

^a Neurological Division   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Bispectrum; Mechanomyogram; Muscle sounds; Muscle surface oscillation

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRODES; FUNCTIONAL NEURAL STIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PRESSURE;

BICOHERENCE; BISPECTRUM; MUSCLE FIBRE; MUSCLE SOUNDS; MUSCLE SURFACE OSCILLATION; NEEDLE ELECTRODES; PRESSURE WAVES; SIMULTANEOUS STIMULATION; SUMMATION PATTERN; SURFACE MECHANOMYOGRAM;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030131094     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(95)00063-1     Document Type: Article

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