Improvement of spatial resolution in surface-EMG: A theoretical and experimental comparison of different spatial filters

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 567-574

  Disselhorst Klug, Catherine ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimental validation; Simulation; Spatial filters; Spatial resolution; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION; MOTOR UNITS; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FILTER; MOTOR UNIT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0031195287     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.594897     Document Type: Article

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