Assessment of single motor unit conduction velocity during sustained contractions of the tibialis anterior muscle with advanced spike triggered averaging

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-12

  Farina, Dario ^a,b   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^b   Merletti, Roberto ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Intramuscular electromyography; Maximum likelihood delay estimators; Rate coding; Single motor unit conduction velocity; Spike triggered averaging; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TENDON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037196868     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00510-6     Document Type: Article

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