Surface myomechanical responses recorded on a scanner galvanometer

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 594-599

  Rafolt, D ^a   Gallasch, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contact pressure; Electrical stimulation; Indentation sensing; Isometric contraction; Mechanomyogram; Twitch response

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; DYNAMOMETERS; GALVANOMETERS; MUSCLE; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SHRINKAGE;

ELECTRICAL SIMULATION; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY (MMG);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MAGNET; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOGRAPHY; PARAPLEGIA; RECORDING; TIME; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0036757912     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345460     Document Type: Article

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