Surface electromyography and mechanomyography recording: A new differential composite probe

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 665-669

  Gregori, B ^a   Galie E ^a   Accornero, Neri ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic myogram; Differential probe; Mechanomyogram; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG); MECHANOMYOGRAPHY (MG);

NEUROLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VIBRATION;

ARTIFACTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY;

EID: 0345531152     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02349974     Document Type: Article

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