Single motor unit analysis from spatially filtered surface electromyogram signals. Part I: Spatial selectivity

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 330-337

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

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Helmholtz Institut fur Biomedizinische Technik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor unit action potentials; Spatial filtering; Surface electromygraphy; Surface EMG decomposition

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ELECTRODES; MUSCLE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

SINGLE MOTOR UNIT ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTOMATION; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ELBOW; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SHOULDER; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

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

EID: 0037842707     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02348439     Document Type: Article

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