Estimation of the relationship between the noninvasively detected activity of single motor units and their characteristic pathological changes by modelling

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 323-335

  Disselhorst Klug, Catherine ^a   Silny, Jiri ^a   Rau, Günter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neuromuscular disorders; Physiological modelling; Single motor unit detection; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MODEL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; THEORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION;

EID: 0032190889     PISSN: 10506411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1050-6411(98)00015-7     Document Type: Article

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