Rectification and non-linear pre-processing of EMG signals for cortico-muscular analysis

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-165

  Myers, L J ^a   Lowery, M ^b   O'Malley, M ^a   Vaughan, C L ^c   Heneghan, C ^a   St Clair Gibson, A ^d   Harley, Y X R ^c   Sreenivasan, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; EMG; Model; Motor unit firing rate; Rectification; Surrogate data

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRACTION; MODEL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0347298736     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(03)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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