Selectivity of spatial filters for surface EMG detection from the tibialis anterior muscle

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 354-364

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

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Intramuscular electromyographic (EMG); Spatial filters; Spatial selectivity; Spike triggered averaging; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPATIAL SELECTIVITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; TECHNIQUE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANKLE; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0344837760     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.808830     Document Type: Article

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