Noninvasive estimation of motor unit conduction velocity distribution using linear electrode arrays

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 380-388

  Farina, Dario ^a   Fortunato, Elena ^a   Merletti, Roberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Conduction velocity estimation; Continuous wavelet transform; Electrode arrays; Electromyography; Spatial filters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VELOCITY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM; LINEAR ELECTRODE ARRAYS; MOTOR UNIT CONDUCTION VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION; SPATIAL FILTERS;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FILTER; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0034015483     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.827303     Document Type: Article

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