Fatigue analysis of the surface EMG signal in isometric constant force contractions using the averaged instantaneous frequency

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 262-265

  Georgakis, A ^a   Stergioulas, L K ^a   Giakas, G ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Averaged instantaneous frequency; Isometric contractions; Mean frequency; Median frequency; Muscle fatigue; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FREQUENCIES; MUSCLE;

MUSCLE FATIGUE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONITORING; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THIGH;

EID: 0037297902     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.807641     Document Type: Article

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