Single motor unit analysis from spatially filtered surface electromyogram signals. Part 2: Conduction velocity estimation

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 338-345

  Schulte, E ^a   Farina, Dario ^b   Rau, G ^a   Merletti, R ^b   Disselhorst Klug, C ^a  

^a Helmholtz Institut fur Biomedizinische Technik   (Germany)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity estimation; Motor unit action potentials; Spatial filtering; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; MUSCLE; POLYNOMIALS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CONDUCTION VELOCITY (CV);

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTATION; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STANDARD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037841857     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02348440     Document Type: Article

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