Simultaneous estimation of muscle fibre conduction velocity and muscle fibre orientation using 2D multichannel surface electromyogram

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-70

  Gronlund C ^a,b   Ostlund N ^a,b,c   Roeleveld, K ^d   Karlsson, J Stefan ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; EMG; Fibre orientation; Motor unit; Multichannel; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MOTOR UNITS (MU); MUSCLE FIBER CONDUCTION VELOCITY (MFCV); MUSCLE FIBER ORIENTATION (MFO); TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) MULTICHANNEL SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; ORIENTATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 14044251554     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345124     Document Type: Article

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