Electromyography tension and frequency spectrum analysis of some masticatory muscles at rest, isotonic and isometric contractions

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 421-434

  Bazzotti, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BITE FORCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TEMPORAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0032854377     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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