Comparison of Fourier and wavelet transform procedures for examining mechanomyographic and electromyographic frequency versus isokinetic torque relationships

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-103

  Beck, Travis W ^a   Housh, T J ^a   Johnson, G O ^a   Weir, J P ^b   Cramer, J T ^c   Coburn, J W ^a   Malek, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Mechanomyography; Signal processing; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TORQUE; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; TORQUE;

EID: 17144397524     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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