Physiologically based simulation of clinical EMG signals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-183

  Hamilton Wright, Andrew ^a,b   Stashuk, Daniel W ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Motor Unit Laboratory   (Canada)

^f IEEE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography; EMG signal simulation; Needle EMG; Physiological modeling; Quantitative EMG

Indexed keywords

MOTOR UNIT (MU); MUSCLE STRUCTURES; NEEDLE ELECTRODES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION ACTIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEEDLE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 13244255261     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.840501     Document Type: Article

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