Magnetic fields produced by single motor units in human skeletal muscles

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 384-389

  Masuda, Tadashi ^a,b   Endo, Hiroshi ^a,b   Takeda, Tsunehiro ^a,b,c  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dipole; Electromyogram; Magnetic field; Motor unit; Superconducting quantum interference device

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLES;

EID: 0032916552     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(98)00021-2     Document Type: Article

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