Time-Frequency Analysis of Mechanomyogram during Sustained Contractions with Muscle Fatigue

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-36

  Itoh, Yasushi ^a   Akataki, Kumi ^b   Mita, Katsumi ^b,c   Watakabe, Makoto ^b   Itoh, Kunihiko ^b  

^a SUZUKA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mechanomyogram; Muscle fatigue; Short time Fourier transform; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; MECHANICAL WAVES; MUSCLE;

MECHANOMYOGRAM; MUSCLE FATIGUE; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

OSCILLATIONS;

EID: 0347947009     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.10528     Document Type: Article

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