Effect of accelerometer location on mechanomyogram variables during voluntary, constant-force contractions in three human muscles

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-127

  Cescon, C ^a   Farina, Dario ^a   Gobbo, M ^b   Merletti, R ^a   Orizio, C ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Array; Mechanomyogram; MMG sampling

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; FREQUENCIES; SENSORS; SIGNALING; SKIN;

MECHANOMYOGRAM (MMG); MUSCLE ARCHITECTURES;

MUSCLE;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 1042303575     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02351021     Document Type: Article

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