Surface EMG Crosstalk Evaluated from Experimental Recordings and Simulated Signals: Reflections on Crosstalk Interpretation, Quantification and Reduction

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-35

  Farina, Dario ^a   Merletti, R ^a   Indino, B ^a   Graven Nielsen, T ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electrically elicited contractions; Spike triggered averaging; Surface EMG; Volume conduction

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; SPIKE; TENDON;

EID: 1642372946     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1633419     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. DeLuca CJ, Merletti R. Surface myoelectric signal cross-talk among muscles of the leg. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1988; 69: 568-75.
2. Winter DA, Fuglevand AJ, Archer SE. Crosstalk in surface electromyography: theoretical and practical estimates. J Electromyogr Kinesiol 1993; 4: 15-26.
3. Solomonow M, Baratta R, Bernardi M, Zhou B, Lu Y, Zhu M, Acierno S. Surface and wire EMG crosstalk in neighbouring muscles. J Electromyogr Kinesiol 1994; 4: 131-42.
4. van Vugt JP, van Dijk JG. A convenient method to reduce crosstalk in surface EMG. Clin Neurophysiol 2001; 112: 583-92.
5. Farina D, Merletti R, Indino B, Nazzaro M, Pozzo M. Cross-talk between knee extensor muscles. Experimental and model results. Muscle Nerve 2002; 26: 681-95.
6. Dimitrova NA, Dimitrov GV, Nikitin OA. Neither high-pass filtering nor mathematical differentiation of the EMG signals can considerably reduce cross-talk. J Electromyogr Kinesiol 2002; 12: 235-46.
7. Farina D, Merletti R. A novel approach for precise simulation of the EMG signal detected by surface electrodes. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2001; 48: 637-46.
8. Farina D, Arendt-Nielsen L, Merletti R, Indino B, Graven-Nielsen T. Selectivity of spatial filters for surface EMG detection from the tibialis anterior muscle. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2003; 50: 354-64.
9. Farina D, Arendt-Nielsen L, Merletti R, Graven-Nielsen T. Assessment of single motor unit conduction velocity during sustained contractions of the tibialis anterior muscle with advanced spike triggered averaging. J Neurosci Meth 2002; 115: 1-12.
10. Merletti R, Farina D, Granata A. Non-invasive assessment of motor unit properties with linear electrode arrays. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1999; 50: 293-300.
11. Merletti R, Farina D, Gazzoni M. The linear electrode array: a useful tool with many applications. J Electromyogr Kinesiol 2003; 13: 37-47.
12. Reucher H, Silny J, Rau G. Spatial filtering of noninvasive multielectrode EMG: Part II - Filter performance in theory and modeling. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 1987; 34: 106-13.